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Rh :And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
 * Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
 * Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
 * How much more abominable and filthy is man,
 * Which drinketh iniquity like water?
 * I will shew thee, hear me;
 * And that which I have seen I will declare;
 * Which wise men have told from their fathers,
 * And have not hid it:
 * Unto whom alone the earth was given,
 * And no stranger passed among them.
 * The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
 * And the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
 * A dreadful sound is in his ears:
 * In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
 * He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
 * And he is waited for of the sword.
 * He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
 * He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 * Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
 * They shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
 * For he stretcheth out his hand against God,