18:029:017 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18:029:018 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 18:029:019 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 18:029:020 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 18:029:021 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 18:029:022 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 18:029:023 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 18:029:024 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 18:029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. 18:030:001 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 18:030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 18:030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 18:030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 18:030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) 18:030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 18:030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 18:030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 18:030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 18:030:010 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 18:030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. 18:030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. 18:030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. 18:030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. 18:030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 18:030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 18:030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18:030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.