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Text -- Ecclesiastes 11:1-7 (NET)

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Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present
11:1 Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return. 11:2 Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth. 11:3 If 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. 11:4 He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap. 11:5 Just 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. 11:6 Sow 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.
Life Should Be Enjoyed Because Death is Inevitable
11:7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.
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NET Notes: Ecc 11:1 Heb “find it.”

NET Notes: Ecc 11:2 The term רעה (lit. “evil”) refers to calamity (e.g., Eccl 5:13; 7:14; 9:12).

NET Notes: Ecc 11:4 This proverb criticizes those who are overly cautious. The farmer who waits for the most opportune moment to plant when there is no wind to blow away ...

NET Notes: Ecc 11:5 Heb “the one who is full.” The feminine adjective מְלֵאָה (mÿle’ah, from מ’...

NET Notes: Ecc 11:6 Or “together.”

NET Notes: Ecc 11:7 The idiom “to see the sun” (both רָאָה הָשָּׁמֶשׁ...

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