“I was eyes to those who were blind, And feet to those who could not walk.
Parallel translations
- WEB I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
- KJV I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- BSB I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- NKJV I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.
- NLT I served as eyes for the blind and feet for the lame.
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Quick answer
Job was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, supplying others' needs.
Overview
Job pictures his compassionate service as becoming the very faculties the disabled lacked. He gave himself to meet the practical needs of the weak and helpless. Such mercy reflects the heart of God for the afflicted and foreshadows Christ, who literally gave sight to the blind and strength to the lame (Matthew 11:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Num 10:31He said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
- Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- 1 Cor 12:12–31For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
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