Ecclesiastes 11:1
Send forth your bread on the face of the waters, || For in the multitude of the days you find it.
Literal Standard 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, and even to eight, || For you do not know what evil is on the earth.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.
Psalms 41:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O the blessedness of him || Who is acting wisely to the poor, || In a day of evil YHWH delivers him.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked is getting a lying wage, || And whoever is sowing righteousness—a true reward.
Proverbs 19:17Whoever is lending [to] YHWH is favoring the poor, || And He repays his deed to him.
Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to seek, || And a time to destroy. A time to keep, || And a time to cast away.
Isaiah 32:8And the noble counseled noble things, || And he rises up for noble 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 →