Ecclesiastes 11
11
Live Boldly
1Throw your bread on the surface of the water, because you will find it again after many days.
2Divide what you have into seven parts, or even into eight, because you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.
3If the clouds are full of rain, they will let it pour down on the earth. If a tree falls north or south, the tree will remain where it fell.
4Whoever watches the wind will never plant. Whoever looks at the clouds will never harvest.
5Just as you don’t know how the breath of life enters the limbs of a child within its mother’s womb, you also don’t understand how God, who made everything, works.
6Plant your seed in the morning, and don’t let your hands rest until evening. You don’t know whether this field or that field will be profitable or whether both of them will ⌞turn out⌟ equally well.
7Light is sweet, and it is good for one’s eyes to see the sun. 8Even though people may live for many years, they should enjoy every one of them. But they should also remember there will be many dark days. Everything that is coming is pointless.
Remember Your Creator While You’re Young
9You young people should enjoy yourselves while you’re young. You should let your hearts make you happy when you’re young. Follow wherever your heart leads you and whatever your eyes see. But realize that God will make you give an account for all these things when he judges everyone. 10Get rid of what troubles you or wears down your body, because childhood and youth are pointless.
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Ecclesiastes 11
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The Value of Diligence
1Cast your bread #Is. 32:20upon the waters,
#(Deut. 15:10; Prov. 19:17; Matt. 10:42; 2 Cor. 9:8; Gal. 6:9, 10; Heb. 6:10)For you will find it after many days.
2#Ps. 112:9; Matt. 5:42; Luke 6:30; (1 Tim. 6:18, 19)Give a serving #Mic. 5:5to seven, and also to eight,
#Eph. 5:16For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3If the clouds are full of rain,
They empty themselves upon the earth;
And if a tree falls to the south or the north,
In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5As #John 3:8you do not know what is the way of the wind,
#Ps. 139:14Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.
7Truly the light is sweet,
And it is pleasant for the eyes #Eccl. 7:11to behold the sun;
8But if a man lives many years
And #Eccl. 9:7rejoices in them all,
Yet let him #Eccl. 12:1remember the days of darkness,
For they will be many.
All that is coming is vanity.
Seek God in Early Life
9Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
#Num. 15:39; Job 31:7; Eccl. 2:10Walk in the ways of your heart,
And in the sight of your eyes;
But know that for all these
#Eccl. 3:17; 12:14; (Rom. 14:10)God will bring you into judgment.
10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
And #2 Cor. 7:1; 2 Tim. 2:22put away evil from your flesh,
#Ps. 39:5For childhood and youth are vanity.
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