Ecclesiastes 11:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
  • Isa 55:10 : 10 For 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;
  • Hos 10:12 : 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
  • Hag 1:6-9 : 6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes. 7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord. 9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his. 10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit. 11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
  • Hag 2:17-19 : 17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord. 18 And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it. 19 Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
  • Zech 8:11-12 : 11 But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies. 12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.
  • Mark 4:26-29 : 26 And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth, 27 And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how. 28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain. 29 But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.
  • John 4:36-38 : 36 He 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. 37 In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain. 38 I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
  • Acts 11:20-21 : 20 But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks. 21 And the power of the Lord was with them, and a great number had faith and were turned to the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 3:5-7 : 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. 6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase. 7 So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
  • 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But 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.
  • 2 Cor 9:10-11 : 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness; 11 Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.
  • Eccl 9:1 : 1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

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  • Eccl 11:1-5
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    1 Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

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

    3 If 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.

    4 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.

    5 As 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.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 In 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.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26 And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

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

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

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6 But 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.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

  • Eccl 11:7
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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

  • Eccl 9:10-11
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    10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

    11 And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    73%

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7 Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

    8 Because 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.

    9 And 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.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

    17 Then 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.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36 He 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.

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

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37 And 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;

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

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

  • Prov 27:1
    70%

    1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

  • Prov 11:24
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    24 A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

  • Deut 22:9
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    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Eccl 3:2
    70%

    2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

  • Eccl 11:9
    69%

    9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

  • Eccl 2:26
    69%

    26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Gen 8:22
    69%

    22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

  • Prov 3:27
    69%

    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 6:8
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    8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

  • Lev 25:3
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    3 For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Eccl 3:6
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    6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

  • Ps 126:5-6
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    5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

    6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Ps 104:23
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    23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Eccl 2:24
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.