2.Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
4.As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
5.When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
7.When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8.The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9.The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
11.When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
12.Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him 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 judgment 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 poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
18.Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
21.Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at 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.
25.I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.