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Then Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and our other enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that there was not one gap in it. But I had not yet set the doors in the gates.

The city was large and roomy, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

While they are still growing and not yet cut, they will dry up quicker than grass.

God will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

Yet my hands have never done anything cruel, and my prayer is pure.

Yet how often are the lamps of evil people turned off? How often does trouble come to them? How often do they suffer God's angry punishment?

Elihu was also angry with Job's three friends who had no answer to show that Job was wrong, yet continued to blame him.

They will tell that he does what is right. People who are not yet born will hear what God has done.

Yet when they were sick, I put on clothes of sadness and showed my sorrow by fasting. But my prayers were not answered.

Then their children would know them, even their children not yet born. And they would tell their children.

Write these things for the future so that people who are not yet born will praise the Lord .

Wise people see where they are going, but fools walk around in the dark. Yet I saw that both wise and foolish people end the same way.

There is a right time and a right way for everything, yet people often have many troubles.

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What should we do for our sister on the day she becomes engaged?

How terrible it will be for you who destroy others but have not been destroyed yet. How terrible it will be for you, traitor, whom no one has turned against yet. When you stop destroying, others will destroy you. When you stop turning against others, they will turn against you.

From the beginning I told you what would happen in the end. A long time ago I told you things that have not yet happened. When I plan something, it happens. What I want to do, I will do.

"You heard and saw everything that happened, so you should tell this news to others. Now I will tell you about new things, hidden things that you don't know yet.

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servant? That person may walk in the dark and have no light. Then let him trust in the Lord and yet depend on his God.

You will call for nations that you don't yet know. And these nations that do not know you will run to you because of the Lord your God, because of the Holy One of Israel who honors you."

"Yet even then," says the Lord , "I will not destroy you completely.