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But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.

Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.

But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.

Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,

For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.

For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.

And let all darkness wait for him: a fire that burns not out shall consume him; and let a stranger plague his house.

For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.