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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 11:1-8

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Ecclesiastes 11:1
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(C1)Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you (C1)will find it (F1)after many days.
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Ecclesiastes 11:2
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(C1)Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what (C2)misfortune may occur on the earth.
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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it (F1)lies.
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Ecclesiastes 11:4
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One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
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Just as you do not (C1)know the path of the (F1)wind, and (C2)how bones are formed in the womb of the (F2)pregnant woman, so you do not (C3)know the activity of God who makes everything.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6
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Sow your seed (C1)in the morning and do not (F1)be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether (F2)one or the other will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.
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Ecclesiastes 11:7
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The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to (C1)see the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 11:8
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Indeed, if a person lives many years, let him (C1)rejoice in them all; but let him remember the (C2)days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
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