Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
In Context
2Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit of it, that it may yield to you the increase of it. I am LORD your God.
Psalms 41:1Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
Proverbs 11:18A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness [has] a sure reward.
Proverbs 19:17He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away,
Isaiah 32:8But a noble man devises noble things, and in noble things he shall continue.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 11:1
In this chapter we have, I. A pressing exhortation to works of charity and bounty to the poor, as the best cure of the vanity which our worldly riches are subject to and the only way of making them turn to a substantial good account, ver. 1-6 . II. A serious admonition to prepare for death and judgment, and to begin betimes, even in the days of our youth, to do so, ver. 7-10 . Read the whole commentary →