Job 29:15
What meaning of the job 29:15 in the Bible?
What does Job 29:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame."
What does Job 29:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame."
Verse Job 29:15. _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...
I WAS EYES TO THE BLIND - An exceedingly beautiful expression, whose meaning is obvious. He became their counsellor and guide. AND FEET WAS I TO THE LAME - I assisted them, and became their benefacto...
CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another ch...
JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy (_cf._ Psalms 25:14). JOB 29:7. Job describes the...
The ground of this universal reverence Job's benevolent care of the poor and his strict justice to their cause....
DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11. _When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and...
I WAS EYES TO THE BLIND, &C.— The writer of the _Observations_ remarks, that when Job would express his readiness to bring forward on their journey those who were enfeebled by sickness, or hurt by acc...
b. The cause of his honored position was benevolence and righteousness (Job 29:11-17) TEXT 29:11-17 11 FOR WHEN THE EAR HEARD _ME,_ THEN IT BLESSED ME; And when the eye saw _me,_ it gave witness un...
_BECAUSE I DELIVERED THE POOR THAT CRIED, AND THE FATHERLESS, AND HIM THAT HAD NONE TO HELP HIM._ The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11) - his helping the afflicted (Psalms 72:12), who crie...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS AND HAPPINESS Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chieftain...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 29 JOB DESCRIBES HIS LIFE B...
עֵינַ֣יִם הָ֭יִיתִי לַֽ † עִוֵּ֑ר וְ רַגְלַ֖יִם לַ † פִּסֵּ֣חַ אָֽנִי׃...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the...
THE BITTER MEMORY OF THE HAPPY PAST Job 29:1 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this chapter!...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he f...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
I WAS EYES TO THE BLIND,.... Either in a literal sense: there was a law in Israel against putting a stumbling block before the blind, and a curse pronounced on those that caused them to wander out of...
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. Ver. 15. _I was eyes to the blind_] Here he saith the same in effect as before, Job 29:12,13, only he setteth it forth _Pulcherrimis allegoriis...
_I was eyes to the blind_ That is, instead of eyes, to instruct, direct, and assist such, as through ignorance or weakness were apt to mistake, and to be seduced or cheated by the craft and artifices...
JOB SPEAKS OF HIS BENEVOLENCE AND THE HONOR ACCORDED HIM...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too muc...
He helped the needy to the point that he became to them. second father. He was so concerned with justice and righteousness that he even took upon himself the cases of complete strangers....
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 gi...
EYES, i.e. instead of eyes, to instruct, and direct, and assist. TO THE BLIND; either, 1. Corporally. Or rather, 2. Spiritually; such as through ignorance or weakness were apt to mistake, and to be...
Job 29:15 eyes H5869 blind H5787 feet H7272 lame H6455 eyes - Numbers 10:31; Matthew 11:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He rehearses the story of his life. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not the smiles of the world, although virtu...
Job 29:3. When _his candle shined upon my head;_ that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights in...
_I put on righteousness._ AD MAGISTRATUM When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever appearance of folly or vain boasting there is in so do...
THE RIGHT KIND OF FEET He speaketh with his feet. Proverbs 6:13. Feet was I to the lame. Job 29:15. Today we are going to think about the right kind of feet; and this time we have two texts, one i...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:1 Chapters Job 29:1 conclude the dialogues with Job’s reflections on his current and future state. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images...
_JOB’S RETROSPECT_ Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently well-...
EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to another contra...
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1) He's got a lot to say. Bildad has run out, so Job thought, "I'll just keep going on." And now it's sort of a lament of the days before all of his afflictions. Lookin...
1 Corinthians 12:12; Matthew 11:5; Numbers 10:31...