12. Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13. the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 robe and a diadem.
15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16. I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
17. I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18. Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house, I shall count my days as the sand.