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, yes, even to eight; for you don't know what evil will be on the earth.

3 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.

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 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.