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Cast Your Bread on the Waters
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Cast Your Bread upon the Waters
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
If the clouds are 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.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.
He that observeth the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds will not reap.
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones [grow] in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.
Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Enjoy Your Years
Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun;
Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun;
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 be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
but if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.
Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant 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.
Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.