in the street. 029:008 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. 029:009 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 029:010 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 029:011 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me: 029:012 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, 029:013 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 029:016 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 029:017 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. 029:018 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand. 029:019 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. 029:020 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.' 029:021 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. 029:022 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them. 029:023 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. 029:024 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face. 029:025 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. 030:001 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. 030:002 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? 030:003 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. 030:004 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food. 030:005 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief; 030:006 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 030:007 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together. 030:008 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land. 030:009 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. 030:010 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face. 030:011 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me. 030:012 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.