Job 29:15
New International Version
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

New Living Translation
I served as eyes for the blind and feet for the lame.

English Standard Version
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

Berean Standard Bible
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

King James Bible
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

New King James Version
I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.

New American Standard Bible
“I was eyes to those who were blind, And feet to those who could not walk.

NASB 1995
“I was eyes to the blind And feet to the lame.

NASB 1977
“I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

Legacy Standard Bible
I was eyes to the blind And feet to the lame.

Amplified Bible
“I was eyes to the blind And I was feet to the lame.

Christian Standard Bible
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

American Standard Version
I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have been eyes to the blind and feet to the crippled

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

Contemporary English Version
I was helpful to the blind and to the lame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

English Revised Version
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I was eyes for the blind person. I was feet for the lame person.

Good News Translation
I was eyes for the blind, and feet for the lame.

International Standard Version
I served as eyes for the blind and feet for the lame.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

Literal Standard Version
I have been eyes to the blind, | And I [am] feet to the lame.

Majority Standard Bible
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

New American Bible
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame was I.

NET Bible
I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;

New Revised Standard Version
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

New Heart English Bible
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Webster's Bible Translation
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

World English Bible
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

Young's Literal Translation
Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.

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Context
Job's Former Blessings
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban. 15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame. 16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.…

Cross References
Numbers 10:31
"Please do not leave us," Moses said, "since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Job 4:3
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.


Treasury of Scripture

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

eyes

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
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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Verse 15. - I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. The Persian kings had officials, whom they called their "eyes" and their "ears" - observers who were to inform them of all that went on in the provinces ('Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 3. p. 213). Job acted as "eyes" to the blind of his time, giving them the information which their infirmity hindered them from obtaining. He was also feet to the lame, taking messages for them, going on their errands, and the like. He was kind and helpful to his fellow-men, not only in great, but also in little matters.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I [served as]
הָ֭יִיתִי (hā·yî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

eyes
עֵינַ֣יִם (‘ê·na·yim)
Noun - cd
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

to the blind
לַֽעִוֵּ֑ר (la·‘iw·wêr)
Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5787: Blind

[and]
אָֽנִי׃ (’ā·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

as feet
וְרַגְלַ֖יִם (wə·raḡ·la·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - fd
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

to the lame.
לַפִּסֵּ֣חַ (lap·pis·sê·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6455: Lame


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