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The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that the fate of one becomes the fate of all of them.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a man of simpleminded folly? Yet he will have power over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored and for which I have acted wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, yet God seeks what is pursued.

There was a certain man without a second man, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches—"And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of good?" This too is vanity, and it is a grievous endeavor.

A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive warning.

a man to whom God gives riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God does not empower him to eat from them, for a foreigner eats from them. This is vanity and a sickening evil.

All a man's labor is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not fulfilled.

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he provided a way of escape for the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Yet the simpleminded fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

Be glad, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be merry during the days of young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sights of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,And it will again be subject to burning,Like a terebinth or like an oakWhose stump remains when it is felled.The holy seed is its stump."

"Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;And give ear, all remote places of the earth.Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,Nor do they seek Yahweh of hosts.

Yet today he will stand at Nob;He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Yet gleanings will remain in it like the shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost branch,Four or five on the twigs of a fruitful tree,Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.

O Yahweh, Your hand is raised up high, yet they do not behold it.They behold Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;Indeed, fire will devour Your adversaries.

Is it not yet just a little whileBefore Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful orchard,And the fruitful orchard will be counted as a forest?

Yet He also is wise and will bring about an evil demiseAnd does not turn His words aside,But will arise against the house of evildoersAnd against the help of the workers of iniquity.

Yet those who hope in YahwehWill gain new power;They will mount up with wings like eagles;They will run and not get tired;They will walk and not become weary.