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One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD .

To show partiality is not good- yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

"Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:

Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

coneys are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;

locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;

a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

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

There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. "For whom am I toiling," he asked, "and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?" This too is meaningless- a miserable business!

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

All man's efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.