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Yet [God] finds pretexts for accusing me; he regards me as his enemy.

You lengthen the steps I can take, yet my ankles do not turn.

A descendant will serve him; the next generation will be told of Adonai. They will come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he is the one who did it.

I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned or his descendants begging for bread.

Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don't march out with our armies.

so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High;

Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn't rouse all his wrath.

Yet they tested El ‘Elyon and rebelled against him, refusing to obey his instructions.

The span of our life is seventy years, or if we are strong, eighty; yet at best it is toil and sorrow, over in a moment, and then we are gone.

May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise Adonai .

Yet he saved them for his own name's sake, to make known his mighty power.

I am continually taking my life in my hands, yet I haven't forgotten your Torah.

The wicked have set a trap for me, yet I haven't strayed from your precepts.

yet it provides its food in summer and gathers its supplies at harvest-time.

he had not yet made the earth, the fields, or even the earth's first grains of dust.

He who winks his eye [instead of rebuking] causes pain, yet a babbling fool will have trouble.

You can crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle, along with the grain being crushed; yet his foolishness will not leave him.

the ants, a species not strong, yet they store up their food in the summer;

the coneys, a species with little power, yet they make their home in the rocks;