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Thine eyes did see mine unperfect substance, and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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 among bruised corn, 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 meat 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 meat 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 mine heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, mine 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 the 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 shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.