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Ecclesiastes 11:5-7
Contemporary English Version
Ecclesiastes 11:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 No one can explain how a baby breathes before it is born.[a] So how can anyone explain what God does? After all, God created everything.
6 Plant your seeds early in the morning and keep working in the field until dark. Who knows? Your work might pay off, and your seeds might produce.
Youth and Old Age
7 Nothing on earth is more beautiful than the morning sun.
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- 11.5 how … born: Or “what makes the wind blow or how a baby grows inside its mother.”
Ecclesiastes 11:5-7
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 11:5-7
New International Version
5 As you do not know the path of the wind,(A)
or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
6 Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,(C)
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
Remember Your Creator While Young
7 Light is sweet,
and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.(D)
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed
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