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Rh :After my words they spake not again;
 * And my speech dropped upon them.
 * And they waited for me as for the rain;
 * And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 * If I laughed on them, they believed it not;
 * And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
 * I chose out their way, and sat chief,
 * And dwelt as a king in the army,
 * As one that comforteth the mourners.


 * now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
 * Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
 * Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me,
 * In whom old age was perished?
 * For want and famine they were solitary;
 * Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
 * Who cut up mallows by the bushes,
 * And juniper roots for their meat.
 * They were driven forth from among men,
 * (They cried after them as after a thief;)
 * To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys.
 * In caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
 * Among the bushes they brayed;