Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 (Revised Standard Version)
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1
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil 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 how the spirit comes to the bones 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 withhold 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 behold the sun.
8
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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