if he rises and walks about in the street on his staff, the one who struck him shall be innocent; only he shall pay his sitting; giving he shall give for his healing.
May it whirl about the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has a discharge, or that is leprous, or that leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or that lacks bread!
So says Jehovah of Hosts: There shall yet be old men and old women sitting in the open places of Jerusalem; and a man with his staff in his hand from his many days.