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Rh :They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
 * I am an alien in their sight.
 * I called my servant, and he gave me no answer;
 * I intreated him with my mouth.
 * My breath is strange to my wife,
 * Though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
 * Yea, young children despised me;
 * I arose, and they spake against me.
 * All my inward friends abhorred me:
 * And they whom I loved are turned against me.
 * My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh,
 * And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
 * Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
 * For the hand of God hath touched me.
 * Why do ye persecute me as God,
 * And are not satisfied with my flesh?
 * Oh that my words were now written!
 * Oh that they were printed in a book!
 * That they were graven with an iron pen
 * And lead in the rock for ever!
 * For I know that my redeemer liveth.
 * And that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
 * And though after my skin worms destroy this body,