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Rh :Are there not mockers with me?
 * And doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
 * Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
 * Who is he that will strike hands with me?
 * For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:
 * Therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
 * He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
 * Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
 * He hath made me also a byword of the people;
 * And aforetime I was as a tabret.
 * Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
 * And all my members are as a shadow.
 * Upright men shall be astonied at this,
 * And the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
 * The righteous also shall hold on his way,
 * And he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
 * But as for you all, do ye return, and come now:
 * For I cannot find one wise man among you.
 * My days are past, my purposes are broken off,
 * Even the thoughts of my heart.
 * They change the night into day:
 * The light is short because of darkness.
 * If I wait, the grave is mine house:
 * I have made my bed in the darkness.
 * I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: