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Cast Your Bread on the Waters

^1 (C1)Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you ^(C1)will find it ^(F1)after many days.^2 (C1)Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what ^(C2)misfortune may occur on the earth.³ If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it ^(F1)lies.⁴ He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.⁵ Just as you do not ^(C1)know ^(F1)the path of the wind and ^(C2)how bones are formed in the womb of the ^(F2)pregnant woman, so you do not ^(C3)know the activity of God who makes all things.

⁶ Sow your seed ^(C1)in the morning and do not ^(F1)be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether ^(F2)morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

⁷ The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to ^(C1)see the sun.⁸ Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him ^(C1)rejoice in them all, and let him remember the ^(C2)days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

⁹ Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the ^(F1)impulses of your heart and the ^(F2)(C1)desires of your eyes. Yet know that ^(C2)God will bring you to judgment for all these things.¹⁰ So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away ^(F1)(C1)pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.