Ecclesiastes 11:1
Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
Young's Literal Translation
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 thou knowest not what evil is on the earth.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit — to add to you its increase; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Psalms 41:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness — a true reward.
Proverbs 19:17Whoso is lending [to] Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth 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 counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.
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 →