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Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

Yet doe I remember the time past: I meditate in all thy workes, yea, I doe meditate in the workes of thine hands.

Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the hands to sleepe.

He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: howe much more will his friends depart farre from him? though hee be instant with wordes, yet they will not.

A man of much anger shall suffer punishment: and though thou deliuer him, yet wil his anger come againe.

They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.

Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.

Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.

A seruant will not be chastised with words: though he vnderstand, yet he will not answere.

There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.

These be foure small things in the earth, yet they are wise and full of wisedome:

The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:

The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:

The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

And she riseth, whiles it is yet night: and giueth the portion to her houshold, and the ordinarie to her maides.

All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.

For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.