Job 29:4-16

4As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

5When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;

6When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,

8The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;

9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

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

11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:

12Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.

13The blessing of him that was ready to perish 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 robe and a diadem.

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

16I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.