Ecclesiastes 11 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Cast Your Bread on the Waters

Cast^H7971 your bread^H3899 on the surface^H6440 of the waters^H4325, for you will find^H4672 it [fn]after many^H7230 days^H3117.

Ecc 11:2

Ecc 11:2Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what calamity may occur on the earth.

Ecc 11:3

Ecc 11:3If the clouds are full, they empty the rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it [fn]lies.

Ecc 11:4

Ecc 11:4He who [fn]watches the wind will not sow, and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Ecc 11:5

Ecc 11:5Just as you do not know [fn]the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the [fn]pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who works all things.

Ecc 11:6

Sow^H2232 your seed^H2233 in the morning^H1242 and do not put^H5117 your hands^H3027 down^H5117 in the evening^H6153, for you do not know^H3045 whether^H335 [fn]morning^H2088 or^H176 evening sowing will succeed^H3787, or whether^H518 both^H8147 of them alike^H259 will be good^H2896.

Ecc 11:7

The light^H216 is sweet^H4966, and it is good^H2896 for the eyes^H5869 to see^H7200 the sun^H8121.

Ecc 11:8

Ecc 11:8Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him be glad in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be vanity.

Ecc 11:9

Be glad^H8055, young^H970 man^H970, during your childhood^H3208, and let your heart^H3820 be^H3190 merry^H3190 during the days^H3117 of young^H979 manhood^H979. And walk^H1980 in the ways^H1870 of your heart^H3820 and in the sights^H4758 of your eyes^H5869. Yet know^H3045 that God^H430 will bring^H935 you to judgment^H4941 for all^H3605 these^H428 things^H428.