(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, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. (9) The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. (10) The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. (11) When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: (12) Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. (13) The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. (14) I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. (15) I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. (16) I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. (17) And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
It is a very interesting account Job here gives of himself, and related in such a beautiful simplicity as cannot be equalled. It should seem, from the several expressions in it, that Job was a magistrate, who sat in the gate, as Moses had in his days, appointed for giving judgment. But I think, if we pass over Job, and behold him as a type of JESUS; then the several expressions rise in beauty, and are abundantly more blessed and delightful. None among the children of fallen Adam can well lay claim to the exalted account here given. No robe of righteousness can be found but that of JESUS. None were ever, in the strict sense of the word, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame, but the LORD JESUS. But if we eye JESUS, as here shadowed forth, how every word then tells. By JESUS did kings reign, and princes decree justice. Proverbs 8:15. Righteousness was indeed the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. Isaiah 11:5. For JESUS put on righteousness, as a breast plate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head. Isaiah 59:17. JESUS was, in every sense of the word, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. He broke the jaws of the wicked when he triumphed over hell and the powers of darkness, and when he plucked our poor nature, as the spoil, from the teeth of Satan. Then it might be truly said, the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon JESUS, when the trumpet of his gospel was blown. Isaiah 27:13.