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Ecclesiastes 11 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Cast Your Bread on the Waters

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Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it [fn]after many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:2 - Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:3 - If 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 [fn]lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:4 - One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - Just as you do not know the path of the [fn]wind, and how bones are formed in the womb of the [fn]pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes everything.

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

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The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Indeed, if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

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Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the [fn]impulses of your heart and the [fn]desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - So remove [fn]sorrow from your heart and keep [fn]pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are [fn]fleeting.
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NASB20 Footnotes
Lit in, within
Lit is
Or with many mss spirit into the bones in the womb
Lit full
Lit let down your hand
Lit this or that
Lit ways
Lit sights
Or anger
Lit evil
Lit futility
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Ecclesiastes Chapter 11 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras