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Rh :They flee away, they see no good.
 * They are passed away as the swift ships:
 * As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
 * If I say, I will forget my complaint,
 * I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
 * I am afraid of all my sorrows,
 * I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
 * If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
 * If I wash myself with snow water.
 * And make my hands never so clean;
 * Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch,
 * And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
 * For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
 * And we should come together in judgment.
 * Neither is there any daysman betwixt us.
 * That might lay his hand upon us both.
 * Let him take his rod away from me.
 * And let not his fear terrify me:
 * Then would I speak, and not fear him;
 * But it is not so with me.
 * My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself;
 * I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
 * I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
 * Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
 * Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,