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Job 29:15 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 29:15Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 29:156 words
HebrewMeaning
עֵינַ֣יִםʿēynayim
eyesnounH5869
outward appearance · before · think best · colour ···
הָ֭יִיתִיhāyiytiy
I wasverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
לַֽ/עִוֵּ֑רlaʿiwēr
to the blindpronH5787
people)
וְ/רַגְלַ֖יִםwəragəlayim
and was feetconjH7272
be able to endure · according as · after · coming ···
לַ/פִּסֵּ֣חַlapisēḥa
to the lamepronH6455
אָֽנִיʾāniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 19 §35
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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