Ecc 11 | ABEn | STEP | Send your bread upon the face of the water! for in a multitude of days you will find it.

Ecclesiastes 11

CHAPTER 11 The Ways of Equity

1 Send your bread upon the face of the water! for in a multitude of days you will find it. 2 Give a portion to seven, even indeed to eight! for you do not know what evil there will be upon the earth. 3 If [³should be filled ¹the ²clouds] of rain, [²upon ³the ⁴earth ¹they pour out]; and if [²should fall ¹a tree] towards the south, or if towards the north, in the place where [³shall fall ¹the ²tree] there it shall be. 4 Giving heed to the wind one does not sow, and one looking into the clouds will not harvest. 5 Among the ones in whom there is no knowing what the way of the wind is, as the bones in the womb of one being with child, so you shall not know the actions of God, as much as he shall do in all things. 6 At morning sow your seed, and at evening do not relieve your hand! for you do not know what will line up -- this here, this there, or if the two [²together ¹are good]. 7 Moreover [²is sweet ¹the light], and it is good to the eyes to see with the sun. 8 For even if [⁴years ³many ²shall live ¹a man], in all them he shall be glad. And [⁴shall be remembered ¹the ²days ³of darkness], for they will be many. All coming is folly. 9 Be glad, O young man, in your youth! and let [²do you good ¹your heart] in the days of your youth! And walk in the ways of your heart unblemished, and in the vision of your eyes! And know that in all these [²shall lead ³you ¹God] in equity! 10 And leave rage from your heart, and pass off wickedness from your flesh! for youth and thoughtlessness are folly.