'Yet' in the Bible

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The fire of God (lightning) has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

“I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,And I am not at rest, and yet trouble still comes [upon me].”

“If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]?But who can restrain himself from speaking?

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

“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughterAnd your lips with joyful shouting [if you are found blameless].

For though I were righteous, I could not answer.I must appeal for mercy to my Opponent and Judge.

“If I called and He answered me,I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.

I am afraid of all my pains and worries [yet to come];I know that You will not acquit me and leave me unpunished.

You would still plunge me into the pit,And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].

‘Yet these [present evils] You have hidden in Your heart [since my creation]:I know that this was within You [in Your purpose and thought].

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

“Even though He kills me;I will hope in Him.Nevertheless, I will argue my ways to His face.

Yet at the scent of water [the stump of the tree] will flourishAnd bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse;Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;It is the venom of vipers within him.

“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

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

“From the [populous and crowded] city men groan,And the souls of the wounded cry out for help;Yet God [seemingly] does not pay attention to the wrong [done to them].

“Yet God draws away the mighty by His power;He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],The faintest whisper of His voice!Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

As long as my life is within me,And the breath of God is [still] in my nostrils,

When the Almighty was still with meAnd my boys were around me,

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

Although I am right, I am accounted a liar.My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

“Behold, God is mighty, and yet does not despise anyone [nor regard any as trivial];He is mighty in the strength and power of understanding.

“Yet when she lifts herself on high,[So swift is she that] she laughs at the horse and his rider.

“He looks on everything that is high [without terror];He is monarch over all the sons of pride. [And now, Job, who are you who does not dare to disturb the beast, yet who dares resist Me, the beast’s creator? Everything under the heavens is Mine; therefore, who can have a claim against God?]”