AB - Ecclesiastes - 11

11:1  Send forth your bread upon the face of the water, for you shall find it after many days.

11:2  Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

11:3  If the clouds are filled with rain, they pour it out upon the earth; and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

11:4  He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

11:5  Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind. As the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you shall not know the works of God, even all things whatsoever He shall do.

11:6  In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack; for you know not what sort shall prosper whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.

11:7  Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

11:8  For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

11:9  Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

11:10  Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and folly are vanity.