Job 29:7-10

Revised Standard Version

⁷ When I went out to 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 laid their hand on their mouth;
¹⁰ the voice of the nobles was hushed,
    and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.