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If the clouds are full of rain,
    they empty themselves on the earth;
and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
He who observes the wind will not sow;
    and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb[a] of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or As you do not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb

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