Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25But in the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you more richly the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
Psalms 41:1(41-1) For the Leader. A Psalm of David. (41-2) Happy is he that considereth the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked earneth deceitful wages; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.
Proverbs 19:17He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his good deed will He repay unto him.
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Isaiah 32:8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
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 →