Ecclesiastes 11:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

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  • Eccl 11:1-3
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    1Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

    2Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

    3If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

  • Eccl 11:5-6
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    77%

    5As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

    6In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

  • Hos 8:7
    75%

    7For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

  • Job 37:21
    73%

    21And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

  • Ps 129:7
    73%

    7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    72%

    7Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

    8Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

    9And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Eccl 5:16
    72%

    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Job 4:8
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    8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Mark 4:27-28
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    71%

    27And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

    28The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

    37In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

  • Eccl 12:2
    71%

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Luke 12:54-55
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    71%

    54Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is.

    55And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.

  • Job 22:14
    71%

    14Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Isa 55:10
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    10For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • Isa 17:11
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    11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Job 37:11
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    11The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

  • Job 36:32
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    32He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Prov 12:11
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    11He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

  • Eccl 8:7
    70%

    7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Mic 6:15
    69%

    15You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Prov 22:8
    69%

    8By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

  • Job 26:8
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    8By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Prov 10:5
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    5He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

  • Ps 126:5
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    5Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
    68%

    37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

  • Isa 40:24
    68%

    24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

  • Job 28:25
    68%

    25When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

  • Prov 25:14
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    14As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

  • Jas 4:14
    68%

    14When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

  • Jer 5:24
    68%

    24And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

  • Ezek 17:10
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    10And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • Job 24:18
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    18They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • Jer 4:11
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    11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;

  • Ps 103:16
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    16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Isa 27:8
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    8Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

  • Job 35:5
    68%

    5Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

  • Job 37:16
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    16Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • Isa 28:24
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    24Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?