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Eccl.|11:1|-|Cast your bread upon the surface of the waters, for you will find it in many days.
Eccl.|11:2|-||a|Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, for you do not know what calamity will happen on the earth.
Eccl.|11:3|-|If the clouds are full, they pour forth rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where it falls, there will it be.
Eccl.|11:4|-|He who watches the wind will |a|not sow, and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.
Eccl.|11:5|-|Just as you do not know what the path of the |a|wind is or how the bones are |b|formed in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.
Eccl.|11:6|-|In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not hold back your hands; for you do not know which will prosper, this one or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Eccl.|11:7|-|The light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.
Eccl.|11:8|-|Indeed if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in all of them; but let him remember the days of |a|darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Eccl.|11:9|-|Rejoice, |1|young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be merry in the days of your youth; and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you to |a|judgment.
Eccl.|11:10|-|So remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and the dawn of life are vanity.
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