Study Desk

^(a)Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you ^(b)will find it ^[a]after many days.

^(c)Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what ^(d)misfortune may occur on the earth.

If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it ^[b]lies.

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Just as you do not ^(e)know ^[c]the path of the wind and ^(f)how bones are formed in the womb of the ^[d]pregnant woman, so you do not ^(g)know the activity of God who makes all things.

Sow your seed ^(h)in the morning and do not ^[e]be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether ^[f]morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.