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Yet, if found, he must pay back sevenfold, All the substance of his house, must he give:

Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

There is who scattereth, and increaseth yet more, and who withholdeth of what is due, only to come to want.

There is who feigneth himself rich, yet hath nothing at all, who pleadeth poverty, yet hath great substance.

Correct thy son, because there is hope, yet, not so as to slay him, let thy passion be excited.

For, seven times, may the righteous fall and yet arise, but, lawless men, shall stumble into calamity.

A leader, may lack intelligence, yet abound in oppressions, The hater of greed, shall lengthen out days.

By words, a servant will not be corrected, though he perceiveth, yet is there no answer.

He that shareth with a thief, hateth himself, an oath, he heareth, yet may not tell.

Two things, have I asked of thee, withhold them not from me, ere yet I die:

A generation! Pure in its own eyes, yet, from its filth, hath it not been bathed,

Four, things there are, the small of the earth, - yet, they, are wiser than the wise:

The ants, a people, not strong, - yet prepare they, in summer, their food;

The conies, a people of, no power, yet set they, among the crags, their house;

King, is there none, to, the locusts, - yet go forth in swarms, do they all;

The lizard, with hands, reneweth its hold, - yet, the same, is in the palaces of the king.

And she riseth, while yet it is night, and giveth food to her household, and a task to her maidens:

All the streams, flow into the sea, yet, the sea, is not full, - unto the place whither the streams flow, thither, do they again flow.

and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun, - even this, was vanity.

For here is a man, whose toil hath been with wisdom and with knowledge and with skill, - yet, to a man who hath not toiled therein, shall he leave it as his portion, even this, was vanity and a great vexation.