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XXX] :Under the nettles they were gathered together.
 * They were children of fools, yea, children of base men:
 * They were viler than the earth.
 * And now am I their song,
 * Yea, I am their byword.
 * They abhor me, they flee far from me,
 * And spare not to spit in my face.
 * Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,
 * They have also let loose the bridle before me.
 * Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet,
 * And they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
 * They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
 * They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters:
 * In the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
 * Terrors are turned upon me:
 * They pursue my soul as the wind:
 * And my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
 * And now my soul is poured out upon me;
 * The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
 * My bones are pierced in me in the night season:
 * And my sinews take no rest.
 * By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: