Job 29:4-16

4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of 1God was over my tent,

5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

6When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

9Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

11When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;

12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;

16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;