Ecclesiastes 11:4

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Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The lazy person says, 'There's a lion outside! I might be killed in the streets!'
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due when it is within your power to act.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

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  • Eccl 11:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

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

    2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the earth.

    3 When the clouds are full, they pour down rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there it will lie.

  • Eccl 11:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind or how bones are formed in a pregnant woman's womb, so you cannot understand the workings of God who makes everything.

    6 Sow your seed in the morning and do not withhold your hand in the evening, for you do not know which will prosper—whether this or that, or if both will equally thrive.

  • Hos 8:7
    75%

    7 For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it will yield no flour. Even if it does produce, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Job 37:21
    73%

    21 Now no one sees the bright light in the clouds, but the wind has passed and cleared them.

  • Ps 129:7
    73%

    7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.

  • Prov 20:4
    73%

    4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    72%

    7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap.

    8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

    9 Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

  • Prov 11:29
    72%

    29 Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise of heart.

  • Eccl 5:16
    72%

    16 Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

  • Job 4:8
    72%

    8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

  • Mark 4:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27 He sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

    28 The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

  • John 4:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 The one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

    37 For in this the saying is true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'

  • Eccl 12:2
    71%

    2 Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

  • Luke 12:54-55
    2 verses
    71%

    54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

    55 And when you feel the south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it happens.

  • Job 22:14
    71%

    14 Clouds cover Him so He cannot see as He walks on the circle of the heavens.

  • Isa 55:10
    70%

    10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, providing seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

  • Isa 17:11
    70%

    11 Though on the day you plant them you make them grow, and in the morning you make your seed blossom, yet the harvest will be a heap on the day of grief and incurable pain.

  • Job 37:11
    70%

    11 Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    70%

    6 Remember this: The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • Job 36:32
    70%

    32 He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.

  • Prov 12:11
    70%

    11 Those who work their land will have plenty of food, but those who chase fantasies lack sense.

  • Eccl 8:7
    70%

    7 Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell anyone what is to come?

  • Mic 6:15
    69%

    15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

  • Prov 22:8
    69%

    8 Whoever sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will fail.

  • Job 26:8
    69%

    8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not torn apart beneath them.

  • Eccl 8:17
    69%

    17 then I saw all the work of God, that no one can understand the work that is done under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can comprehend it. Even if the wise claim to know, they cannot truly understand it.

  • Prov 10:5
    69%

    5 The one who gathers during summer is a prudent son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

  • Ps 126:5
    69%

    5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
    68%

    37 And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • Isa 40:24
    68%

    24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

  • Job 28:25
    68%

    25 When He gave weight to the wind and measured the waters by measure,

  • Prov 25:14
    68%

    14 Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

  • Jas 4:14
    68%

    14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

  • Jer 5:24
    68%

    24 They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rains in their season—the early and late rains—and who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.'

  • Ezek 17:10
    68%

    10 Even if transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes it, drying up in the very garden bed where it grew?’

  • Job 24:18
    68%

    18 Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

  • Jer 4:11
    68%

    11 At that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A scorching wind from the barren heights of the desert blows toward the daughter of my people—not to winnow or cleanse.

  • Ps 103:16
    68%

    16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

  • Isa 27:8
    68%

    8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.

  • Job 35:5
    68%

    5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

  • Job 37:16
    68%

    16 Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

  • Isa 28:24
    68%

    24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continually break up and harrow his ground?