11:1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. |
11:2 Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth. |
11:3 If the clouds have become full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies. |
11:4 He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. |
11:5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones form in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. |
11:6 Sow your seed in the morning and do not become idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will show good. |
11:7 The light seems pleasant, and it seems good for the eyes to see the sun. |
11:8 Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will increase. Everything that will occur will come to futility. |
11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart have pleasantness during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things. |