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Ecclesiastes 11
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Preparing for the Future

11Spread your bread on the water? after a while you will find it.H7971H3899H6440H4325H4672H7230H3117
2Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land.H5414H2506H7651H8083H3045H7451H776
3If the clouds are full of rain, they will pour out on the earth; if a tree falls toward the south or the north, wherever it falls, there it will lay.H5645H4390H1653H7324H776H6086H5307H1864H6828H4725H6086H5307H1933
4Whoever keeps staring at the wind won't sow; whoever daydreams won't reap.H8104H7307H2232H7200H5645H7114
5Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.11H3045H1870H7307H6106H990H4392H3045H4639H430H6213
6In the morning, sow your seed and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.H1242H2232H2233H6153H3240H3027H3045H335H3787H8147H259H2896

Preparing for Old Age

7How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone's eyes to behold the sunshine!H216H4966H2896H5869H7200H8121
8Even if a person lives many years, let him enjoy them all, recalling that there will be many days of darkness to come?all of which are pointless.H120H2421H7235H8141H8055H2142H3117H2822H7235H935H1892
9So enjoy yourself in your youth, young man, and be encouraged during your younger days. Live as you like, consistent with your world view, but keep in mind that God will bring you to account for everything.H8055H970H3208H3820H2895H3117H979H1980H1870H3820H4758H5869H3045H430H935H4941
10Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.H5493H3708H3820H5674H7451H1320H3208H7839H1892


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