Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again.
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In The King James Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.
Psalms 41:1Unto the end. The understanding of the sons of Korah.
Proverbs 11:18The impious does work with inconstancy. But for the sower of justice, there is the reward of faithfulness.
Proverbs 19:17Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
Isaiah 32:8Yet truly, the prince will plan things that are worthy of a prince, and he will stand above the rulers.
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 →