Ecclesiastes 11:1

New Living Translation

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 in all English translations

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