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Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.

when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil.

Some give freely, yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due, and only suffer want.

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

One's own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the Lord .

To show partiality is not good— yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

There are those who are pure in their own eyes yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.

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

the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;

the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

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

the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

—and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. "For whom am I toiling," they ask, "and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

there was no end to all those people whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.