Ecclesiastes 11:1
Send your bread out on the surface of the water, and many days later you will find it again.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
In Context
2Share what you own with seven or eight people, for you never know what disaster could happen.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25However, the fifth year you may eat the fruit and in this way you will have an even greater harvest. I am the Lord your God.
Psalms 41:1How happy are those who take care of the poor! When they are in trouble the Lord will save them.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked earn wages that cheat them, but those who sow goodness reap a genuine reward.
Proverbs 19:17If you're kind to the poor, you're lending to the Lord, and he will repay you well for what you've done.
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time of searching, and a time of giving up searching. A time of keeping, and a time of throwing away.
Isaiah 32:8But noble people act unselfishly; they keep to their principles of generosity.
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 →