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

ECC 11:1–11:8 ©

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The to do of wise

Ecc 11:1–8

11Throw your bread out onto the waters

because you’ll find it again in several days.

2Share it around seven or eight others

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

3If 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.

4A person who worries about the wind,

won’t sow any seed,

and someone who keeps looking at the clouds,

will never harvest their crop.

5Just 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.

6Sow 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.


7Light is sweet

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

8Even 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.