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Ecclesiastes 11:7 (RSV) Revised Standard Version

1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.
8 For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
10 Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
1 Cast H7971 VPFC thy bread H3899 upon H5921 PREP the waters H4325 D-OMD : for H3588 CONJ thou shalt find H4672 it after many H7230 days H3117 D-NMP .
2 Give H5414 VQI2MS a portion H2506 CMS to seven H7651 , and also H1571 W-CONJ to eight H8083 ; for H3588 CONJ thou knowest H3045 VQY2MS not H3808 NADV what H4100 IPRO evil H7451 AFS shall be H1961 VQY3MS upon H5921 PREP the earth H776 D-GFS .
3 If H518 PART the clouds H5645 be full H4390 of rain H1653 , they empty H7324 themselves upon H5921 PREP the earth H776 D-GFS : and if H518 PART the tree H6086 NMS fall H5307 toward the south H1864 , or H518 PART toward the north H6828 , in the place H4725 CMS where the tree H6086 AMS falleth H5307 , there H8033 ADV it H1933 shall be .
4 He that observeth H8104 the wind H7307 NFS shall not H3808 NADV sow H2232 ; and he that regardeth H7200 the clouds H5645 shall not H3808 NADV reap H7114 .
5 As H834 RPRO thou knowest H3045 VQY2MS not H369 what H4100 IPRO is the way H1870 NMS of the spirit H7307 , nor how the bones H6106 do grow in the womb H990 of her that is with child H4392 : even so H3602 ADV thou knowest H3045 VQY2MS not H3808 NADV the works H4639 M-CMS of God H430 D-NAME-4MP who H834 RPRO maketh H6213 VQY3MS all H3605 .
6 In the morning H1242 B-NMS sow H2232 thy seed H2233 CMS-2MS , and in the evening H6153 withhold H5117 not H408 NPAR thine hand H3027 CFS-2MS : for H3588 CONJ thou knowest H3045 not H369 whether H335 IPRO shall prosper H3787 , either this H2088 DPRO or H176 CONJ that H2088 , or whether H518 W-PART they both H8147 ONUM-3MP shall be alike H259 good H2896 .
7 Truly the light H216 D-NMS is sweet H4966 , and a pleasant H2896 thing it is for the eyes H5869 to behold H7200 L-VQFC the sun H8121 :
8 But H3588 CONJ if H518 PART a man H120 D-NMS live H2421 many H7235 VHFA years H8141 NFP , and rejoice H8055 in them all H3605 NMS ; yet let him remember H2142 the days H3117 CMP of darkness H2822 D-NMS ; for H3588 CONJ they shall be H1961 VQY3MP many H7235 VHFA . All H3605 NMS that cometh H7945 is vanity H1892 .
9 Rejoice H8055 , O young man H970 , in thy youth H3208 ; and let thy heart H3820 CMS-2MS cheer H3190 thee in the days H3117 B-CMP of thy youth H979 , and walk H1980 in the ways H1870 of thine heart H3820 CMS-2MS , and in the sight H4758 of thine eyes H5869 CMD-2MS : but know H3045 thou , that H3588 CONJ for H5921 PREP all H3605 NMS these H428 PMP things God H430 D-EDP will bring H935 thee into judgment H4941 BD-NMS .
10 Therefore remove H5493 sorrow H3708 from thy heart H3820 , and put away H5674 evil H7451 AFS from thy flesh H1320 : for H3588 CONJ childhood H3208 and youth H7839 are vanity H1892 .