Ecclesiastes 11 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Cast Your Bread on the Waters

Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will [fn]find it after many days.

Ecc 11:2

Ecc 11:2Give a portion to seven, or even [divide it] to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.

Ecc 11:3

Ecc 11:3If the clouds are full [of rain], they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it lies.

Ecc 11:4

Ecc 11:4He who watches the wind [waiting for all conditions to be perfect] will not sow [seed], and he who looks at the clouds will not reap [a harvest].

Ecc 11:5

Ecc 11:5Just as you do not know the way and path of the wind or how the bones are formed in the womb of a pregnant woman, even so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

Ecc 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle with your hands in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening planting will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Ecc 11:7

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

Ecc 11:8

Ecc 11:8Yes, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that is to come will be futility.

Ecc 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Ecc 11:10

Ecc 11:10Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

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AMP Footnotes

(11:1)

I.e. be richly rewarded.

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