11 ^(A)Cast your bread upon the waters,
    ^(B)for you will find it after many days.
^2 (C)Give a portion to ^(D)seven, or even to eight,
    ^(E)for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
³ 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.
⁴ He who observes the wind will not sow,
    and he who regards the clouds will not reap.