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You don’t know where the wind will blow.
    And you don’t know how a baby grows in its mother’s body.
In the same way, God certainly made all things.
    But you can’t understand what he is doing.
Begin planting early in the morning,
    and don’t stop working until evening.
This is because you don’t know which things you do will succeed.
    It is even possible that everything you do will succeed.

Serve God While You Are Young

It is good to be alive
    to enjoy the light of day.

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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)

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Footnotes

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