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There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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

The ants are a people not strong, 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 go they forth all of them by bands;

The lizard taketh hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings' palaces.

She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go 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 on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

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

And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

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

He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.