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Yet you have crushed us in the jackal's desert home. You have covered us with darkness and death.

Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.

I have done nothing wrong, yet they prepare to attack me. Wake up! See what is happening and help me!

Yet I still belong to you; you hold my right hand.

so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children.

Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,

Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!

Let this be recorded for future generations, so that a people not yet born will praise the Lord .

Yet he did not let anyone oppress them. He warned kings on their behalf:

Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn't wait for his counsel!

Many persecute and trouble me, yet I have not swerved from your laws.

Showing partiality is never good, yet some will do wrong for a mere piece of bread.

For the wise can see where they are going, but fools walk in the dark." Yet I saw that the wise and the foolish share the same fate.

And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.

But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.

And yet, "Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind."

I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.

This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.