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Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,

The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

I am small and despised, yet I do not forget thy precepts.

"Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

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

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;

the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.