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Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters: Counsel on Risk and Generosity

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

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Chapter 11
1 Send your bread upon the face of the waters, for after many days you will find it. 2 Give a portion to seven and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds are filled with rain over the land, they will empty; and if a tree falls in the south or in the north, the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. 4 He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who sees the clouds will not reap. 5 Just as you do not know the way of the wind in the bones in the full womb, so you will not know the work of God, who does everything. 6 In the morning sow your seed and in the evening do not rest your hand, for you do not know which this will succeed, this or that, or if both as one are good.