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And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and [to] all my words give ear.

Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.

And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet [is] their food in their mouth,

O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.

Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.

If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.

There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] vanity.

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed [is] its substance!'