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Ecclesiastes chapter 11

Send your out over the — after many days, it will come back to you.Share what you have with — you never know what may strike the land.When the are full, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a falls to the south or the north — wherever it falls, there it stays.Whoever watches the will never . Whoever stares at the clouds will never .Just as you don’t understand how enters the of a child in the womb, you cannot understand the work of who makes everything.Start in the and don’t stop until — because you have no idea which effort will succeed, this one or that one, or whether both will turn out equally good. is , and it’s good for the eyes to see the .Even if someone lives many years, let them find in every one. But let them also remember — the are coming, and there will be many. Everything that is coming is .Be happy, , while you’re young. Let your give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow wherever your heart leads and whatever your eyes see — but know this: God will bring you to for all of it.So clear the from your heart and keep the from your body — because and the are .