Ecclesiastes 11:1-3

New Living Translation

The Uncertainties of Life

11 Send your grain across the seas,
and in time, profits will flow back to you.^[a]
²But divide your investments among many places,^[b]
for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.

³When clouds are heavy, the rains come down.
Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.

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Footnotes

11:1 Or Give generously, / for your gifts will return to you later. Hebrew reads Throw your bread on the waters, / for after many days you will find it again.
11:2 Hebrew among seven or even eight.

New Living Translation (NLT)

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