Job 29:15
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- KJV
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- WEB
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
- ASV
- I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
- DARBY
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
- BLB
- I was eyes to the blind, and I [was] feet to the lame.
- ÅB
- øyne var jeg for den blinde, og føtter var jeg for den halte.
- OTB
- Jeg var en veileder for de blinde,
Og en støtte for de lamme. - B1930
- Øine var jeg for den blinde, og føtter var jeg for den halte.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 10:31
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
Read in contextMatthew 11:5
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Read in context1 Corinthians 12:12–31
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
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