Add parallel Print Page Options

You don’t know ·where the wind will blow [L the way of the wind],
    and you don’t know how ·a baby grows inside its mother [L the bones/or body are/is formed in its mother’s womb].
In the same way, you don’t know ·what God is doing [the work of God],
    or ·how he created everything [or who does everything].
Plant early in the morning,
    and ·work until [L do not let your hand rest at] evening,
because you don’t know if this or that will succeed.
    They might both do well.

Serve God While You Are Young

·Sunshine [L Light] is sweet;
    it is good ·to see the light of day [L for the eyes to see the sun].

Read full chapter

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.

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

Light is sweet,
    and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed