Parallel Bible results for "Ecclesiastes 11:1-6"

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

The Message Bible MSG

1 e generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns.

2 Don't hoard your goods; spread them around. Be a blessing to others. This could be your last night.

3 When the clouds are full of water, it rains. When the wind blows down a tree, it lies where it falls.

4 Don't sit there watching the wind. Do your own work. Don't stare at the clouds. Get on with your life.

5 Just as you'll never understand the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman, So you'll never understand the mystery at work in all that God does.

6 Go to work in the morning and stick to it until evening without watching the clock. You never know from moment to moment how your work will turn out in the end. Before the Years Take Their Toll

New International Version NIV

1 Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.

2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

3 If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

4 Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.