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Yet none of this does me any good at all, as long as I keep seeing Mordekhai the Jew remaining seated at the King's Gate."

"If one tries to speak to you, will you mind? Yet who could keep from speaking?

It stood still, but I couldn't make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued voice:

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

You know that I won't be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.

"‘Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know what your secret purpose was —

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

Yet my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is pure.

Yet the righteous hold on to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

"But as for you all, turn around! Come back! — yet I won't find a wise man among you.

yet in his stomach his food goes bad, it works inside him like snake venom;

"Yet to God they said, ‘Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge?

Yet he himself had filled their homes with good things! (But the advice of the wicked is far away from me.)

Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

Yet I am not cut off by the darkness; he has protected me from the deepest gloom.

Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!

"Yet God keeps pulling the mighty along — they get up, even when not trusting their own lives.

He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet no cloud is torn apart by it.

Yet when I hoped for good, what came was bad; when I expected light, what came was darkness.