Cast Your Bread upon the Waters
1 [Isa. 32:20] Cast your bread upon the waters,
[Deut. 15:10;Prov. 19:17;Matt. 10:42;Luke 14:14;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 portion to Mic. 5:5;See Job 5:19;Prov. 6:16seven, or even to eight,
[Luke 16:9;Eph. 5:16]for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
they empty themselves on the earth,
and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know the way [ch. 1:6;John 3:8] the spirit comes to See Ps. 139:13-16the bones in the womb11:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts As you do not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening ch. 7:18withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to ch. 6:5;7:11see the sun.
8 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember [ch. 12:1,2] that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is ch. 2:23;See ch. 1:2vanity.11:8 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a "vapor" or "mere breath"; also verse 10 (see note on 1:2)
9 [ch. 2:10;9:7] Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. [Num. 15:39;Job 31:7] Walk in the ways of your heart and ch. 6:9the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things See ch. 12:14God will bring you into judgment.
10 Remove vexation from your heart, and 2 Cor. 7:1;2 Tim. 2:22put away pain11:10 Or evil from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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