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IX] :How much less shall I answer him,
 * And choose out my words to reason with him?
 * Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer,
 * But I would make supplication to my judge.
 * If I had called, and he had answered me;
 * Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
 * For he breaketh me with a tempest,
 * And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
 * He will not suffer me to take my breath,
 * But filleth me with bitterness.
 * If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong:
 * And if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
 * If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me:
 * If I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
 * Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul:
 * I would despise my life.
 * This is one thing, therefore I said it.
 * He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
 * If the scourge slay suddenly,
 * He will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
 * The earth is given into the hand of the wicked:
 * He covereth the faces of the judges thereof;
 * If not, where, and who is he?
 * Now my days are swifter than a post: