The Value of Diligence

11 Cast your bread (A)upon the waters,
(B)For you will find it after many days.

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The Uncertainties of Life

11 Send your grain across the seas,
    and in time, profits will flow back to you.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:1 Or Give generously, / for your gifts will return to you later. Hebrew reads Throw your bread on the waters, / for after many days you will find it again.

Cast Your Bread on the Waters

11 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will [a]find it after many days.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:1 I.e. be richly rewarded.