6. It was as if my path were covered with creamand the rocks poured out olive oil for me.
7. I would go to the city gateand sit in the public square.
8. When the young men saw me, they would step aside,and the old men would stand up in respect.
9. The leading men stopped speakingand covered their mouths with their hands.
10. The voices of the important men were quiet,as if their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11. Anyone who heard me spoke well of me,and those who saw me praised me,
12. because I saved the poor who called outand the orphan who had no one to help.
13. The dying person blessed me,and I made the widow’s heart sing.
14. I put on right living as if it were clothing;I wore fairness like a robe and a turban.
15. I was eyes for the blindand feet for the lame.
16. I was like a father to needy people,and I took the side of strangers who were in trouble.
17. I broke the fangs of evil peopleand snatched the captives from their teeth.
18. “I thought, ‘I will live for as many days as there are grains of sand,and I will die in my own house.