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:
19. My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
20. My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
21. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22. After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23. And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24. If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.