Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
World English Bible Classic
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, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.
Psalms 41:1Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
Proverbs 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward him.
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Isaiah 32:8But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in 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 →