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Yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

The length of our days is seventy years-or eighty if we are strong-yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

A man's own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

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

the conies are not a mighty species, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

and the lizard can be caught in one's hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.