New American Standard Bible 2020

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

1 1Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you 2will find it 3after many days. 2 4Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what 5misfortune may occur on the earth. 3If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it 6lies. 4One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest. 5Just as you do not 7know the path of the 8wind, and 9how bones are formed in the womb of the 10pregnant woman, so you do not 11know the activity of God who makes everything.

6Sow your seed 12in the morning and do not 13be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether 14one or the other will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

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Notes

1. Ecclesiastes 11:1 Deut 15:10; Prov 19:17; Matt 10:42; Gal 6:9; Heb 6:10 ↩
2. Ecclesiastes 11:1 Deut 15:10; Prov 19:17; Matt 10:42; Gal 6:9; Heb 6:10 ↩
3. Ecclesiastes 11:1 Lit in, within ↩
4. Ecclesiastes 11:2 Ps 112:9; Matt 5:42; Luke 6:30; 1 Tim 6:18, 19 ↩
5. Ecclesiastes 11:2 Eccl 11:8; 12:1 ↩
6. Ecclesiastes 11:3 Lit is ↩
7. Ecclesiastes 11:5 John 3:8 ↩
8. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or with many mss spirit into the bones in the womb ↩
9. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Ps 139:13-16 ↩
10. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Lit full ↩
11. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Eccl 1:13; 3:10, 11; 8:17 ↩
12. Ecclesiastes 11:6 Eccl 9:10 ↩
13. Ecclesiastes 11:6 Lit let down your hand ↩
14. Ecclesiastes 11:6 Lit this or that ↩

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