Parallel Bible results for "ecclesiastes 11"

Ecclesiastes 11

New Living Translation NLT

1 Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.

2 But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.

3 When clouds are heavy, the rains come down. Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.

4 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

5 Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

6 Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

7 Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.

8 When people live to be very old, let them rejoice in every day of life. But let them also remember there will be many dark days. Everything still to come is meaningless.

9 Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.

10 So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Send your resources out over the seas; eventually you will reap a return.

2 Divide your merchandise into seven or eight shares, since you don't know what disasters may come on the earth.

3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth. Whether a tree falls toward the north or the south, the place where the tree falls is where it stays.

4 He who keeps watching the wind will never sow; he who keeps looking at the clouds will never reap.

5 Just as you don't know the way of the wind or how bones grow in a pregnant woman's womb, so you don't know the work of God, the maker of everything.

6 In the morning, sow your seed; and don't slack off until evening; for you don't know which sowing will succeed, this, or that, or if both will do well.

7 Then the light will be sweet, and it will be a pleasure to see the sun. 1086

8 For if a person lives many years, let him take joy in them all; yet remembering that there will be many days of darkness, that all to come is futile.

9 Young person, if you spend your youth only having fun, if you use your early years just to entertain yourself, if you follow your heart as you live your life, and let your eyes be your guide; understand that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

10 Therefore, remove anger from your heart; and keep from harming your body; for neither adolescence nor youth has any lasting value.