Job 29:15

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

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I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

In Context

14I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

16I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:31And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18

7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →

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