Job 29:15
Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
In Context
14I took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.
16A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.
Cross References
Numbers 10:31And he said, Do not, I pray thee, leave us; since thou didst find out the places where we were to encamp in the wilderness, and thou hast been to us instead of eyes.
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 →