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Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

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

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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

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

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.