Ecclesiastes 11:5-7

The Voice

⁵You can no more predict the path of the wind than you can explain how a child’s bones are formed in a mother’s womb. Even more, you will never understand the workings of the God who made all things.

⁶    Get up early to sow your seed,
        and in the evening find worthwhile things to do,
    For you never know which will profit you—
        maybe this, maybe that, maybe both.

Hard work, not idleness, is at the heart of wisdom. Rewards come when we most need and least expect them.

⁷ Light is sweet;
one glimpse of the sun delights the eyes.

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