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OET-RV by cross-referenced section ECC 11:1

⌂ ← ECC 11:1–11:8 → ║ ═ ©

This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

The to do of wise

Ecc 11:1–8

11 Throw your bread out onto the waters

because you’ll find it again in several days.

2 Share it around seven or eight others

because you don’t know when a calamity will hit your area.

3 If the clouds are filled with rain, they’ll pour it out,

and if a tree falls to the north or the south,

wherever it falls, that’s where it’ll be.

4 A person who worries about the wind,

won’t sow any seed,

≈ and someone who keeps looking at the clouds,

will never harvest their crop.

5 Just as you don’t know how the winds work,

or how the bones get into a pregnant woman’s womb,

nor do you know how God does everything that he does.

6 Sow your seed in the morning

and don’t stop planting until the evening,

because you don’t know which areas will grow well,

or whether it will all succeed equally.


7 Light is sweet

and it’s good for your eyes to see the sun.

8 Even if a person lives for many years,

they should take pleasure in all of them,

but remember the dark days

because everything that happens is pointless.

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