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Ecclesiastes 11:4
Ecclesiastes 11:4 is verse 4 of Ecclesiastes chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
King James Version
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
World English Bible
He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
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Ecclesiastes 11:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
3 If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 3:27Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Proverbs 22:13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”