Ecclesiastes 11:4

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

In Context

3If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

5As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

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Cross References

Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

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 →

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