1 Corinthians 12:12-31; Matthew 11:5; Numbers 10:31
I was eyes to the blind - An exceedingly beautiful expression, whose meaning is obvious. He became their counsellor and guide. And feet was I...
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means in...
DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11-16 . When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because...
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame - Alluding probably to the difficulty of t...
I was eyes to the blind, &c.— The writer of the Observations remarks, that when Job would express his readiness to bring forward on their jou...
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The grounds on which Job was praised ( Job 29:...
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become in...
the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way fo...
(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 prepare...
I was eyes to the blind ,.... Either in a literal sense: there was a law in Israel against putting a stumbling block before the blind, and a curse p...
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. Ver. 15. I was eyes to the blind ] Here he saith the same in effect as before, Job 29:12,1...
I was eyes to the blind That is, instead of eyes, to instruct, direct, and assist such, as through ignorance or weakness were apt to mistake, and t...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, a...
7 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 th...
Eyes, i.e. instead of eyes, to instruct, and direct, and assist. To the blind; either, 1. Corporally. Or rather, 2. Spiritually; such as thro...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity....
I put on righteousness. Ad magistratum When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever...
I was eyes to the blind. Self-multiplication Are not my eyes my own? No, nothing is your own; and until you get that truth driven into your ver...
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man...
Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame, his charity and largess was so great as to make men forget their misfortunes, no matter whether...
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.