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I am small and despised; yet I do not forget thy commandments.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me; yet I meditate on thy commandments.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

My oppressors have been many from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Though the LORD be high, yet can he see those who have been brought low; but the proud he knows from afar.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and upon thy books all these things were written, even before day was and man was brought into existence.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands on the chest;

While as yet he had not made the earth nor the valleys nor the best soil of the world.

Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

There is he who scatters his own seed abroad, and yet brings in plenty; and there is he who gathers that which is not his, and yet has less.

Better is a poor man who serves himself than one who is proud and yet lacks bread.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; there are others who pretend to be poor, yet have great riches.

A threat breaks the heart of a wise man; but the fool instead of a rebuke receives a scourging, and yet he is not conscious of it.

He who lacks wealth and yet loves entertainment, wine, and pleasure shall not be rich.

They have beaten me, you shall say, but I did not suffer, they have mocked me, but I did not know it; when I shall awake sober, I will go and seek it yet again.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands upon your chest;

The ants which have no strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;

The conies who lack strength, and yet they make their houses in the rocks;

The locusts who have no king, and yet they all gather together.

She rises also while it is yet night, and gives food to her household and work to her maids.