9. Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
10. The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
11. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
12. For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
13. The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
16. I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
17. And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18. And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
19. My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;