“I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.”
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, depicting Job's service to the disabled and vulnerable, suggesting that he became a kind of extension of their capacity. The image of being eyes to the blind suggests providing perception and guidance where natural capacity is absent. The image of being feet to the lame suggests providing mobility and access where natural movement is impossible. The verse establishes that Job's righteousness expressed itself in active provision for those whose disabilities limited their functioning.
Church Fathers on Job 29:15
I was an eye to the blind, and a foot was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Herein the mind of the reader might perchance put the question, wherefore it is that blessed Job reckons up his own virtue with so much particularity. For it is a mark of holy men to conceal the good things they may have done, lest it chance that they bring upon themselves the downfall of exaltation. Whence Truth saith by Itself, Take heed that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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