Eccl 11
1
Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many
days.
2
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall
be upon the earth.
3
If 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.
4
He who observes the wind sows not; and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.
5
Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb
of a pregnant woman, so you shall not know the works of God, even all things whatever
he shall do.
6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack: for you
know not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good
alike.
7
Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
8
For 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.
9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your
youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your
eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement.
10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth
and folly are vanity.