Job 29:13-18

JPS_ASV_Byz(i) 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem. 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 of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. 18 Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;