Job 29:15
I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
In Context
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
Cross References
Numbers 10:31And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.
1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also 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 →