2
Who giveth to me, that I be beside the eld months, by the days in which God kept me? (Who giveth to me, that once more I be, like in the months gone by, yea, those days in which God looked after me?)
3
When his lantern shined on mine head, and I went in darknesses at his light (and I walked through the darkness by his light).
4
As I was in the days of my youth, when in private God was in my tabernacle (when privately, or secretly, God watched over my tent, or my home).
5
When Almighty God was with me, and my children were in my compass (and my children were all about me);
6
when I washed my feet in butter, and the stone shedded out to me the streams of oil; [(when I washed my feet with butter, and the stone poured out for me rivers of oil;)]
7
when I went forth to the gate of the city, and in the street they made ready a chair to me (and in the street they prepared a chair for me).
8
Young wanton men saw me, and were hid, and eld men rising up stood (and old men rose, and stood up to honour me);
9
princes ceased to speak, and they putted their finger on their mouth; (leaders ceased to speak, and they covered their mouths with their hands;)
10
dukes refrained their voice, and their tongue cleaved to their throat. (rulers refrained their voices, and their tongues cleaved to the roofs of their mouths.)
11
The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, yielded witnessing to me (bare witness for me/testified for me);
12
for I delivered the poor man crying [out], and the fatherless child, that had no helper. (for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless child who had no helper.)