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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Yet they say, The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].

Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] I have not declined from thy law.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] I do not forget thy statutes.

My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet I do not forget thy law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

I [am] small and despised: [yet] I do not forget thy precepts.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.

Many [are] my persecutors and my enemies; [yet] I do not decline from thy testimonies.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Though the LORD [is] high, yet hath he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.

Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.

[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 highest part of the dust of the world.

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