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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him].

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.

They have stricken me, [wilt thou say], [and] I was not sick; 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 shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] his foolishness will not 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 prepare their food in the summer;

The conies [are but] a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

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

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

Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Yes, better is [he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yes, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yes, it [is] a grievous labor.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.