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Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts,
    because you don’t know what disaster might befall the land.
If the clouds are full of rain,
    they will pour out on the earth;
if a tree falls toward the south or the north,
    wherever it falls, there it will lay.
Whoever keeps staring at the wind won’t sow;
    whoever daydreams[a] won’t reap.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:4 Lit. who stares at clouds