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Yet he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;

Yet you are near, Lord , and all your commands are true.

yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

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

The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure.

A person's own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord .

To show partiality is not good— yet a person 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;

hyraxes 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.

No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

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 that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.