◄ Ecclesiastes 11:4 ►
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Good News Translation
If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever observes the wind will not sow; and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.

Contemporary English Version
If you worry about the weather and don't plant seeds, you won't harvest a crop.

New American Bible
One who pays heed to the wind will never sow, and one who watches the clouds will never reap.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.

Proverbs 3:27 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.

Proverbs 20:4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

Context
Cast Your Bread upon the Waters
…3If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be. 4He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 11:3
If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Ecclesiastes 11:3
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