Directions for charity
11:1 Send your bread on the water: because you will find it after many days.* Charity should be given even to strangers: generosity will not go unrewarded – From the Artscroll English Tanach
11:2 Divide your portions to seven, and even to eight; because you don’t know what troubleרָעָה
Transliteration: rāʿâ -Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here will be on the land.
11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves upon the earth: whether the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it remains.
11:4 He that watches the wind will never sow; and he that watches the clouds will never reap.
11:5 Just like you don’t know the wayדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, path, route, distance, journey, manner For more info click here of the windהָרוּחַ
Transliteration: hārûaḥ Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: the wind, the breath, the mind, the spirit For more info click here, or nature of the embryo in a pregnant woman’s womb: so you don’t know the works of the Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here who makes everything.
11:6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t be idle: because you can’t know which will succeed, either this or that, or if both will do well.
11:7 Sweet is the light, and a goodוְטוֹב
Transliteration: vᵊṭôḇ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here thing for the eyes to see the sun:
11:8 Even if a man lives many years, and rejoice in all of them; but let him remember the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is pointless.
Thought of God’s Judgement
11:9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and follow in the pathsבְּדַרְכֵי
Hebrew Noun: Common Both Plural Construct – in the ways, in the roads, in the distances, in the journeys, in the manners, in the paths, in the directions For more info click here of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but be aware, that for all these things Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here will bring you into judgmentבַּמִּשְׁפָּט
Transliteration: bammišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here.
11:10 So remove anger from your heart, and remove evilרָעָה
Transliteration: rāʿâ -Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here from your flesh: because childhood and youth are pointless.
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