^{1 Ref} Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.

^{2 Ref} Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don't know what evil will be on the earth.

^{3 Ref} If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

^{4 Ref} He who observes the wind won't sow; And he who regards the clouds won't reap.

^{5 Ref} As you don't know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

^{6 Ref} In the morning sow your seed, And in the evening don't withhold your hand; For you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, Or whether they both will be equally good.