Ecclesiastes 11:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Ecclesiastes 11:2 NIV
Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 NIV
If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 NIV
Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 NIV
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 NIV
Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 NIV
However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 NIV
So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.