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Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

My life is in danger continually, yet I do not forget your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I do not wander from your precepts.

I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.

My persecutors and enemies are many, yet I do not turn aside from your testimonies.

"Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Though Yahweh is high, yet he sees the lowly, but the proud he perceives at a distance.

For there is not a word yet on my tongue, but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.

Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.

When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,

There is one who gives yet grows richer, but he who withholds what is right only finds need.

A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue him, you will do it yet again.

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

the badgers are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;

there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank;

a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings.

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"

The wise man can see where he is walking, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.

And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all the fruit of my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also is vanity!