1Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days.


In Context

1 Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be on the earth.

3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:1Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:1Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.