3. When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5. When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
6. When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
7. When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
8. The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
9. The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
10. The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11. For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:
12. Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, 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 justice 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 needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
17. And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: