2. “Oh, that I were as in months past,as in the days when God watched over me;
3. when His lamp shone upon my head,and when by His light I walked through darkness;
4. as I was in the days of my autumn youth,when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
5. when the Almighty was still with me,when my children were around me;
6. when my steps were bathed in butter,and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
7. “When I went out to the gate of the city,when I took my seat in the square,
8. the young men saw me and hid themselves,and the aged arose and stood up.
9. The princes refrained from talking,and put their hand on their mouth.
10. The nobles held their peace,and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11. When the ear heard, then it blessed me;and when the eye saw, then it approved me,
12. because I delivered the poor who cried,and the fatherless, and him who had none to help him.
13. The blessing of the perishing man 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 like a robe and a diadem.