Ecclesiastes 11 (NET)

Ecclesiastes 11:1¹Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 11:6Prov 19:17Heb 6:10Matt 10:422 Cor 9:6Isa 32:20Ps 41:1-2Gal 6:8-10Luke 14:14Isa 32:8

Ecclesiastes 11:2²Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:18-19Job 5:19Ps 112:9Luke 6:30-35Prov 6:16Dan 4:27Acts 11:28-30Eph 5:16Esth 9:19Esth 9:22

Ecclesiastes 11:3³If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:17Isa 55:10-11Ps 65:9-13Luke 13:71 Kgs 18:45Luke 16:22-26Matt 3:10

Ecclesiastes 11:4⁴He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 20:4Prov 3:27Prov 22:13

Ecclesiastes 11:5⁵Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:8Ps 92:5Eccl 8:17Rom 11:33Isa 40:28Ps 104:24Ps 139:13-16Eccl 7:24Job 26:5-14Job 36:24-33

Ecclesiastes 11:6⁶Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed — whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 9:10-11Isa 55:10Hag 1:6-11Hos 10:122 Cor 9:6Zech 8:11-12John 4:36-381 Cor 3:5-72 Tim 4:2Hag 2:17-19

Ecclesiastes 11:7⁷Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:11Matt 5:45Prov 15:30Ps 84:11Job 33:30Prov 29:13Eccl 6:5Job 33:28Ps 56:13

Ecclesiastes 11:8⁸So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many—all that is about to come is obscure.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:35Deut 32:29Eccl 7:14Joel 2:2Eccl 12:1-5Eccl 6:11Eccl 8:12Eccl 8:15Jer 13:16Job 14:10

Ecclesiastes 11:9⁹Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 12:141 John 2:15-16Eccl 12:1Eccl 3:17Lam 3:272 Cor 5:10Job 31:7Heb 9:27Eph 2:2-3Rom 14:10

Ecclesiastes 11:10¹⁰Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:12 Tim 2:22Eccl 1:2Eccl 1:14Eccl 12:12 Pet 3:11-14Job 20:11Ps 39:5Ps 90:7-11Job 13:26