(A)Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what (B)misfortune may occur on the earth. If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it [a]lies. One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:3 Lit is

Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight;
    you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

If clouds are full of water,
    they pour rain on the earth.
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
Whoever watches the wind will not plant;
    whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

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