21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath  stricken against me.
         
                                
                        22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not  satisfied?
         
                                
                        23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth  grant that in a book they may be graven?
         
                                
                        24 With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may  be hewn.
         
                                
                        25 That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last,  For the dust he doth rise.
         
                                
                        26 And after my skin hath compassed this [body], Then from my  flesh I see God:
         
                                
                        27 Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and  not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.