Ecclesiastes 11

¹ Send forth your bread on the surface of the water, For after many days you shall find it. ² Give a portion to seven, yea even to eight, For you do not know what evil may come upon the earth. ³ If the thick clouds are full for a downpour, They shall empty out upon the earth, And if a tree falls to the south, or if to the north, The place where the tree falls, there shall it rest. ⁴ He who observes the wind does not sow, And he who examines the thick clouds does not reap. ⁵ Just as you have no knowledge what the way of the wind may be, Or how bones are formed in the belly that is full, Thus you cannot know the work of the One, Elohim, Who made everything. ⁶ Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hand rest at evening, For you have no knowledge wherein this may succeed, whether this or that, Or whether both of them are alike good. ⁷ The light is sweet, And it is good for the eyes to see the sun. ⁸ For if a man lives many years he should rejoice in them all, Yet he should remember the days of darkness, For they shall be many; All that will come is vanity. ⁹ Rejoice, choice youth, in your childhood, And let your heart be well in the days of your prime; Walk in the ways of your heart and by the sight of your eyes, Yet know that for all these the One, Elohim, shall bring you into judgment. ¹⁰ Take away vexation from your heart, And expel evil sufferings from your flesh, For childhood and early days are vanity.