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The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet I do not wander from Your Precepts.

they have distressed me from my youth many times, yet they have not prevailed over me.

Though Jehovah is high, yet He looks upon the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written the days they were formed, and not one was yet among them.

Let the righteous strike me; it is a mercy; and he rebuking me, it is oil of the head, let not my head refuse it ; for yet my prayer also shall be against their evils.

As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a woman who is beautiful, yet turning aside discretion.

There is one who scatters yet increases more; but a withholder of just due comes only to poverty.

There are those who act rich, yet have nothing at all; and those who act poor, yet have great wealth.

A scorner seeks wisdom, but finds it not, yet knowledge is swift to the discerning.

All the poor man's brothers hate him, and his friends also surely leave him; he pursues them with words, yet they are not.

saying , They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it , I will still seek it.

a generation pure in its own eyes, and yet not washed from its own filth.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer;

rock badgers are not a powerful people, yet they make their houses in the rock;

the locusts have no king, yet they go out in a swarm, all of them;

the lizard you can take with the hands, yet it is in king's palaces.

All the rivers are going to the sea; yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers are going, there they are returning to go again .

And who knows if he will be wise or a fool? Yet he shall rule among all my labor in which I labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

When there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with advantage; yet he shall give it to a man who has not labored with it, for his share; this also is vanity and a great evil.

Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.