Ecclesiastes 11

1Send your bread out upon the waters, for you will find it in a multitude of days.

2Give a portion to seven, even to eight, for you do not know what evil will be upon the earth.

3If clouds fill with rain, they pour it out over the earth; and if a tree falls southward or northward, in whatever place the tree falls, there it lies.

4Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks upon the clouds will not reap.

5As you do not know the path of the wind or how bones form in a pregnant woman's womb, so you do not know God's work, all that he makes.

6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, whether this or that, or if both alike turn out good.

7Light is sweet, and good for the eyes to see the sun.

8For if a man lives many years, let him take joy in all of them; yet let him recall the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything coming is vanity.

9Young man, rejoice in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in your youthful days, and walk in your heart's ways and your eyes' sights; but know that for all these God will bring you into judgment.

10Remove anger from your heart, and banish evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.