Job’s Former Blessings
Job 29:15
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- I have been eyes to the blind, || And I [am] feet to the lame.
- YLT
- Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
- DBY
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
- DRC
- I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
- GNV
- I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.
- JPS
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- LXXE
- I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- עֵינַ֣יִם הָ֭יִיתִי לַֽעִוֵּ֑ר וְרַגְלַ֖יִם לַפִּסֵּ֣חַ אָֽנִי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὀφθαλμὸς ἤμην τυφλῶν, ποὺς δὲ χωλῶν.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PopularityLameBeneficenceLiberalityDiseasesTravellersProverbs, the Book ofPoor, ThePsalms, Book ofPoor
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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.
- Matthew 11:5The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12–31The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,…
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