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


In Context

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

2 Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

3 If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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