Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:8Ask your servants, and they will tell you. Let then your servants find grace in your eyes, for we are come on a good day; give we pray you, whatever your hand may find, to your son David.
Esther 9:19On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a + 9:19 Gr. good day. holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.
Job 5:19Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you.
Proverbs 6:16For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
Micah 5:5And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men.
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 →