Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The verse means: "Let your hospitality and your alms be extensive: for you know not what reverses may befall either that person who by your liberality will be strengthened to meet them, or yourself who may come to need grateful friends." Compare Luke 16:9.
Seven, and also to eight - A definite number for an indefinite (compare marginal reference).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ecclesiastes 11:2:
Amos 1:3
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