For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: