Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, and even to eight, || For you do not know what evil is on the earth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
In Context
1Send forth your bread on the face of the waters, || For in the multitude of the days you find it.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:8Ask your young men, and they declare [it] to you, and the young men find grace in your eyes, for we have come on a good day; please give that which your hand finds to your servants and to your son, to David.”
Esther 9:19Therefore the Jews of the open places, who are dwelling in cities of the open places, are making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar—joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending portions to one another.
Job 5:19In six distresses He delivers you, || And in seven evil does not strike on you.
Proverbs 6:16These six has YHWH hated, || Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
Micah 5:5And this [One] has been peace. Asshur, when he comes into our land, || And when he treads in our palaces, || We have raised against him seven shepherds, || And eight anointed of man.
Matthew 18:22Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 11:2-7
The Obligations to Be Liberal; Answers to Objections against Liberality. 1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall… Read the whole commentary →