Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Cast Your Bread on the Waters

^aCast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you ^awill find it ¹after many days. 2 ^aDivide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what ^bcalamity may occur on the earth. 3 If the clouds are full, they empty the rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it ¹lies. 4 He who ¹watches the wind will not sow, and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 Just as you do not ^aknow ¹the path of the wind and ^bhow bones are formed in the womb of the ²pregnant woman, so you do not ^cknow the work of God who works all things.
6 Sow your seed ^ain the morning and do not put your hands down in the evening, for you do not know whether ¹morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.