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My soule is continually in my hand: yet doe I not forget thy Law.

The wicked haue layde a snare for mee: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

I am small and despised: yet doe not I forget thy precepts.

Trouble and anguish haue taken hold on me: yet thy commaundements are my delights.

Many are my persecutors, and mine enemies: yet doe I not decline from thy testimonies.

Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth: yet they haue not preuailed against mee.

Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect vnto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afarre off.

Thine eyes did see my substance yet being vnperfect, and in thy booke all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them.

Let the righteous smite mee, it shalbe a kindnesse: and let him reprooue me, it shalbe an excellent oile, which shall not breake my head: for yet my prayer also shalbe in their calamities.

Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleepe.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more then is meete, but it tendeth to pouertie.

There is that maketh himselfe rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himselfe poore, yet hath great riches.

All the brethren of the poore doe hate him: howe much more doe his friends goe farre from him? Hee pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliuer him, yet thou must doe it againe.

They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.

Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the handes to sleepe:

Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.

There is a generation that are pure in their owne eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthinesse.