Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the face of the waters; for after many days wilt thou find it again.
Leeser Tanakh
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, and also to eight: for thou knowest not what evil may come upon the earth.—
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, in order that it may increase unto you its productiveness: I am the Lord your God.
Psalms 41:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (41:2) Happy is he that careth for the poor: on the day of evil will the Lord deliver him.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked practiseth a work of falsehood; but he that soweth righteousness [obtaineth] the reward of truth.
Proverbs 19:17He lendeth unto the Lord that is liberal to the poor, and his good deed will he repay unto him.
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to seek, and a time to let things be lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
Isaiah 32:8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and he ever persisteth by liberal things.
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 →