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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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The Value of Diligence

1 Cast your bread aupon the waters,
bFor you will find it after many days. 
2 aGive a serving bto seven, and also to eight,
cFor you do not know what evil will be on the earth. 
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
They empty themselves upon the earth;
And if a tree falls to the south or the north,
In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As ayou do not know what is the way of the1 wind,
bOr how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything. 
Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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Ecclesiastes 11:3

The clouds - Learn, O man, the practice of liberality from the very lifeless creatures, from the clouds; which when they are filled with water, do not hoard it up, but plentifully pour it forth for the refreshment both of the fruitful field and the barren wilderness. Therefore, let us just not bring forth the fruits of righteousness, because death will shortly cut us down, and we shall then be determined to unchangeable happiness or misery, according as our works have been.


 
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