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There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, Yet are not washed from their filthiness.

The ants are not a strong people, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, Yet they advance in ranks;

You can catch a lizard with your hands, Yet she is in kings' palaces.

She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness -- and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored therein. This also is vanity and a great evil.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was -- yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.