4. As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret 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 rivers 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 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:
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.