21. Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
22. After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
23. And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24. If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
25. I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.