Ecclesiastes 11:4

World English Bible (2000)

He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards the clouds won't reap.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
  • Prov 3:27 : 27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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  • Eccl 11:1-3
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    1 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

    2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don't know what evil will be on the earth.

    3 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.

  • Eccl 11:5-6
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    5 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

    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.

  • Hos 8:7
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    7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Job 37:21
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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.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Gal 6:7-9
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    7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

    9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • Job 4:8
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    8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

  • Mark 4:27-28
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    27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

    28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

  • John 4:36-37
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    36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

  • 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.

    55 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens.

  • Job 22:14
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    14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

  • 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;

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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

  • 2 Cor 9:6
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    6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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    32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • Prov 12:11
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    11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

  • Mic 6:15
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    15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

  • Prov 22:8
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    8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

  • Job 26:8
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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Prov 10:5
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    5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

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    5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

  • 1 Cor 15:37
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    37 That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • Job 28:25
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    25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

  • Prov 25:14
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    14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

  • Jas 4:14
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    14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • Jer 5:24
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    24 Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

  • Ezek 17:10
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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.

  • Job 24:18
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    18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • Jer 4:11
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    11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

  • Ps 103:16
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    16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Isa 27:8
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    8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

  • Job 35:5
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    5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

  • Job 37:16
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    16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Isa 28:24
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    24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?