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Ecclesiastes 11 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Ecc 11:1Send forth thy bread upon the face of the water: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecc 11:2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth.
Ecc 11:3If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour it out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.
Ecc 11:4He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.
Ecc 11:5Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so thou shalt not know the works of God, even all things whatsoever he shall do.
Ecc 11:6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thine hand be slack: for thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.
Ecc 11:7Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Ecc 11:8For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecc 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecc 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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