Job 29 · Verse 15

Job 29:15

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:15, King James Version

Job 29:15 in other translations

BSBI served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
WEBI was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
ASVI was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
YLTEyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.
DARBYI was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
BBEI was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
WebsterI was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

What does Job 29:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 29:12-17

12-17. The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Psa 72:12) who cried to him for help, as a judge, or as one possessed of means of charity. Translate: "The fatherless who had none to help him."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame - Alluding probably to the difficulty of travelling in the Arabian deserts. I was eyes to the blind - those who did not know the way, I furnished with guides. I was feet to the lame - those who were worn out, and incapable of walking, I set forward on my camels, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 29:7-17

All sorts of people paid respect to Job, not only for the dignity of his rank, but for his personal merit, his prudence, integrity, and good management. Happy the men who are blessed with such gifts as these! They have great opportunities of honouring God and doing good, but have great need to watch against pride. Happy the people who are blessed with such men! it is a token for good to them. Here we see what Job…

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Job 29:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֵינַ֣יִם'ei.Na.yimeyesH5869
הָ֭יִיתִיHa.yi.tiI wasH1961
לַֽעִוֵּ֑רla.'i.Verto the blindH5787
וְרַגְלַ֖יִםve.rag.La.yimand [was] feetH7272
לַפִּסֵּ֣חַla.pi.Se.achto the lameH6455
אָֽנִי\׃'A.niIH589

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 29:15

  • 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.

  • Matthew 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.

  • 1 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. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
eyes.
Nu 10:31; Mt 11:5; 1Co 12:12-31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 29:14

    I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

  • Job 29:15

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

  • Job 29:16

    I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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Job 29:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Yo era ojos al ciego, y pies al cojo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’étais, moi, les yeux de l’aveugle et les pieds du boiteux;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Auge war ich dem Blinden, und Fuß dem Lahmen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.