Ecclesiastes 11:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. 11 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. 13 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
  • Luke 13:7 : 7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
  • Luke 16:22-26 : 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
  • 1 Kgs 18:45 : 45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

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  • Ezek 31:13-14
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    13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

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  • Isa 55:10
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    10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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    16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Jer 10:13
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    13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Job 36:27-28
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    27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

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    19 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

  • Luke 12:54-55
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    54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.

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    5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

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    7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

  • Matt 7:27
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    27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

  • Job 37:11-12
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    11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

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  • Eccl 11:6
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    6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

  • Job 37:6
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  • Dan 4:11
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    11 The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

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    8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

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    3 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

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    21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

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    10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

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    2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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    31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

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    4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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    15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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    10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

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