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For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

…yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

…that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

And 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.

He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.

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 like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

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 creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

…the rock badgers are creatures of little power, 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.

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

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

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

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

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

…though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.

Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.

Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

…say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!

Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”