Ecclesiastes 11:1-4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

11 Send out your bread upon the waters,
    for after many days you will get it back.^(A)
2 Divide your means seven ways, or even eight,
    for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.^(B)
3 When clouds are full,
    they empty rain on the earth;
whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
⁴ Whoever observes the wind will not sow,
    and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.