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He will yet fill your mouth with laughterand your lips with a shout of joy.

“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;I know that this was your hidden plan:

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almightyand argue my case before God.

Yet the righteous person will hold to his way,and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.

Even after my skin has been destroyed,yet I will see God in my flesh.

yet the food in his stomach turnsinto cobras’ venom inside him.

Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone!We don’t want to know your ways.

Yet another person dies with a bitter soul,having never tasted prosperity.

Yet you say, “What does God know?Can he judge through total darkness?

Yet he knows the way I have taken;when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness,by the thick darkness that covers my face.

From the city, men groan;the mortally wounded cry for help,yet God pays no attention to this crime.

Yet God drags away the mighty by his power;when he rises up, they have no assurance of life.

He wraps up the water in his clouds,yet the clouds do not burst beneath its weight.

Those who survive him will be buried by the plague,yet their widows will not weep for them.

Yet no one would stretch out his handagainst a ruined personwhen he cries out to him for helpbecause of his distress.

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.

He will look at men and say,“I have sinned and perverted what was right;yet I did not get what I deserved.

For Job has declared, “I am righteous,yet God has deprived me of justice.

But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty?When he hides his face, who can see him?Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,