Advice to be active, not knowing the future
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📚✭Cast your bread on the waters, for you will find it after many days✭. 2 📚✭Give a portion to seven and also to eight, for you do not know what disaster will come on the earth.
3 📚✭If the clouds are full of rain they empty themselves on the earth, and if the tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.
4 📚✭He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who considers the clouds will not reap.
5 📚Just as you do not know the path of the spirit✭ or how the bones grow in the womb of the pregnant woman, even so you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 📚In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not let your hand be idle, for you do not know whether this or that will prosper, or whether they will both alike be good.
7 📚✭Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun,
8 📚But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, still he should remember the days of darkness; for they will be many. All that comes is emptiness.
Advice to the young
9 📚Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
10 📚Therefore expel sorrow from your heart, and put away trouble from your body, for childhood and youth are emptiness.