Ecclesiastes 11:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.

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    1Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

    2Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.

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  • Eccl 11:5-6
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    5Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

    6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

  • Hos 8:7
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    7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

  • Job 37:21
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    21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

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  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

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  • Prov 11:29
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    29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?

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

  • Mark 4:27-28
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    27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

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  • Luke 12:54-55
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    14Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

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    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

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    11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

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    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

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    11The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense.

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    7Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

  • Mic 6:15
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    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

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    8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

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    17then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.

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    5The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.

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    5Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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    25When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,

  • Prov 25:14
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    14Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

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    14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

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    24They do not say to themselves,“Let us revere the LORD our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

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    10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

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    11“At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told,‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the wilderness on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff.

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    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

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    8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

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    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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    24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?