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"Though your beginning was insignificant, Yet your end will increase greatly.

"While it is still green and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant.

"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter And your lips with shouting.

Yet You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would abhor me.

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:

"Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.

"Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

"From the city men groan, And the souls of the wounded cry out; Yet God does not pay attention to folly.

When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

"Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.

"Wait for me a little, and I will show you That there is yet more to be said in God's behalf.

Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more; And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread.