Job 29:7-17

English Standard Version

⁷ When I went out to ^(A)the gate of the city,
    when I prepared my seat in the square,
⁸ the young men saw me and withdrew,
    and the aged rose and stood;
⁹ the princes refrained from talking
    and ^(B)laid their hand on their mouth;
¹⁰ the voice of the nobles was hushed,
    and their ^(C)tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
¹¹ When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
    and when the eye saw, it approved,
¹² because I ^(D)delivered the poor who cried for help,
    and the fatherless who had none to help him.
^13 (E)The blessing of him who was ^(F)about to perish came upon me,
    and I caused ^(G)the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴ I ^(H)put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
    my justice was like a robe and ^(I)a turban.
¹⁵ I was ^(J)eyes to the blind
    and feet to the lame.
¹⁶ I was a father to the needy,
    and I searched out ^(K)the cause of him whom I did not know.
¹⁷ I ^(L)broke ^(M)the fangs of the unrighteous
    and made him drop his prey from his teeth.