18:029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

18:029:016 I was a father to the poor:  and the cause which I knew not I
           searched out.

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.