 | Crystal Daniels - Religion - 2006 - 114 pages
...sing for joy. 141 put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 151 was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 161 was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 1 7 And I brake the jaws... | |
 | Amos Yong - Church work with people with disabilities - 2007 - 465 pages
...cf. Klages 1999: 214n3). The models of charitable witness are Job in the Hebrew Bible — who said: "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out" (Job 29:15-16) — and the Good Samaritan in the New Testament.... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 609 pages
...house, and about all that he hath on every side?" (Job i. 10.) Wherefore? Hear Job himself saying, " I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the orphans." (Job xxix. 15.) As he who does not turn aside from the calamities of others, will not suffer... | |
 | Preston A. Taylor - Religion - 2007 - 438 pages
...hiding his sins. Job said, "My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go" (Job 27:6). He said, "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame" (29:15). He cried, "The days of affliction have taken hold upon me" (30:16). Again Job declared, "When... | |
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I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment... 
