Chapter 11

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Cast That is, says Bp. Lowth, "Sow thy seed or corn on the face of the waters;" in plain terms, sow without any hope of a harvest. Do good even to them on whom your benefactions seem thrown away. Dr. Jebb has well illustrated it by the following passages:

"Vain are the favours done to vicious men;
Not vainer 'tis to sow the foaming deep.
The deep no pleasant harvest shall afford,
Nor will the wicked ever make return.

"To befriend the wicked is like sowing in the sea.
These, indeed, invert this precept;
Nor is it extraordinary that they should.

"The one, frail human power alone produced,
The other, God."

thy bread Deut 15:7-11; Prov 11:24-25, Prov 22:9; Isa 32:8

waters Heb. face of the waters, Isa 32:20

for Eccl 11:6; Deut 15:10; Ps 41:1-2, Ps 126:5-6; Prov 11:18, Prov 19:17; Matt 10:13, Matt 10:42, Matt 25:40; Luke 14:14; 2Cor 9:6; Gal 6:8-10; Heb 6:10


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a portion Neh 8:10; Esth 9:19, Esth 9:22; Ps 112:9; Luke 6:30-35; 1Tim 6:18-19

seven Job 5:19; Prov 6:16; Mic 5:5; Matt 18:22; Luke 17:4

for Dan 4:27; Acts 11:28-30; Gal 6:1; Eph 5:16; Heb 13:3


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the clouds 1Kgs 18:45; Ps 65:9-13; Isa 55:10-11; 1John 3:17

if the tree Matt 3:10; Luke 13:7, Luke 16:22-26


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Prov 3:27, Prov 20:4, Prov 22:13


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thou knowest not what John 3:8

nor Ps 139:14-15

even Eccl 7:24, Eccl 8:17; Job 5:9, Job 26:5-14, Job 36:24-33, Job 37:23, Job 38:4-41, 39:1-41:34; Ps 40:5, Ps 92:5, Ps 104:24; Isa 40:28; Rom 11:33


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sow Eccl 9:10; Isa 55:10; Hos 10:12; Mark 4:26-29; John 4:36-38; 2Cor 9:6; 2Tim 4:2

thou knowest Eccl 9:1; Hag 1:6-11, Hag 2:17-19; Zech 8:11-12; Acts 11:20-21; 1Cor 3:5-7; 2Cor 9:10-11

prosper Heb. be right


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the light Job 33:28, Job 33:30; Ps 56:13; Prov 15:30, Prov 29:13

a pleasant Eccl 7:11; Ps 84:11; Matt 5:45


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if a man, Eccl 6:6, Eccl 8:12

rejoice Eccl 3:12-13, Eccl 5:18-20, Eccl 8:15

yet Eccl 7:14, Eccl 12:1-5; Deut 32:29; Job 10:22, Job 14:10, Job 15:23, Job 18:18; Jer 13:16; Joel 2:2; Matt 22:13; John 12:35; Jude 1:18

All that Eccl 2:1-11, Eccl 2:15, Eccl 2:17, Eccl 2:19, Eccl 2:21-23, Eccl 2:26, Eccl 4:8, Eccl 4:16, Eccl 5:15-16, Eccl 6:11


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Rejoice 1Kgs 18:27, 1Kgs 22:15; Luke 15:12-13

in thy youth Eccl 12:1; 1Kgs 18:12; Lam 3:27

walk Num 15:30, Num 22:32; Deut 29:19; Job 31:7; Ps 81:12; Jer 7:24, Jer 23:17; Jer 44:16-17; Acts 14:16; Eph 2:2-3; 1Pet 4:3-4

in the sight Eccl 2:10; Gen 3:6, Gen 6:2; Josh 7:21; 2Sam 11:2-4; Matt 5:28; 1John 2:15-16

know Eccl 3:17, Eccl 12:14; Ps 50:4-6; Acts 17:30-31, Acts 24:25; Rom 2:5-11, Rom 14:10; 1Cor 4:5; 2Cor 5:10; 2Pet 3:7; Heb 9:27; Rev 20:12-15


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remove Eccl 12:1; Job 13:26; Ps 25:7; 2Pet 3:11-14

sorrow or, anger, Ps 90:7-11

and put Job 20:11; 2Cor 7:1; 2Tim 2:22

for Eccl 1:2, Eccl 1:14; Ps 39:5; Prov 22:15


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