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

hyraxes are not a mighty people,yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

locusts have no king,yet all of them march in ranks;

a lizard can be caught in your hands,yet it lives in kings’ palaces.

All the streams flow to the sea,yet the sea is never full;to the place where the streams flow,there they flow again.

And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

All of a person’s labor is for his stomach,yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Yet no one knows what will happen because who can tell him what will happen?

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

yet the fool multiplies words.No one knows what will happen,and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

Daughters of Jerusalem,I am dark like the tents of Kedar,yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.

Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,and are deaf, yet have ears.

I declare the end from the beginning,and from long ago what is not yet done,saying: my plan will take place,and I will do all my will.

But I myself said: I have labored in vain,I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;yet my vindication is with the Lord,and my reward is with my God.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,or lack compassion for the child of her womb?Even if these forget,yet I will not forget you.

Yet as you listen, the childrenthat you have been deprived of will say,‘This place is too small for me;make room for me so that I may settle.’

Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,and he carried our pains;but we in turn regarded him stricken,struck down by God, and afflicted.

He was oppressed and afflicted,yet he did not open his mouth.Like a lamb led to the slaughterand like a sheep silent before her shearers,he did not open his mouth.