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He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put the past in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.

But better off than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity—it is an unhappy business!

There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also is vanity and chasing wind!

God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it—instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This is vanity—indeed, it is a grievous ill!

He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him.

All of a man's toil is for his mouth— yet his appetite is never satisfied.

Although the sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will be good for those who fear God—because they fear his presence.

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.

We have a little sister, and she does not yet have any breasts. What should we do for our sister on the day when she is betrothed?

On your planting day you make them grow, and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom, yet the harvest will flee in a day of sickness and incurable pain.

to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they were not willing to hear.

Yet I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.

Bring out the people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.

Yet the children born when you were bereaved will say in your hearing, "The place is too cramped for me; make room for me so that I can dwell."

However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.

Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If she places his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.

Yet they seek me day by day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that practiced righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for righteous judgments, they desire the closeness of God.

Yet now Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay and you are our potter, and we all are the work of your hand.