11:1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it ①after many days.
▷ ①Lit in, within
11:2 Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.
11:3 If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it ①lies.
▷ ①Lit is
11:4 One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.
11:5 Just as you do not know the path of the ①wind, and how bones are formed in the womb of the ②pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes everything.
▷ ①Or with many mss spirit into the bones in the womb ②Lit full
11:6 Sow your seed in the morning and do not ①be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether ②one or the other will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.
▷ ①Lit let down your hand ②Lit this or that
11:7 The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
11:8 Indeed, if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the ①impulses of your heart and the ②desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
▷ ①Lit ways ②Lit sights
11:10 So remove ①sorrow from your heart and keep ②pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are ③fleeting.
▷ ①Or anger ②Lit evil ③Lit futility