Ecclesiastes Chapter 11

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 withhold not your hand: for you don’t know whether will prosper, either this or that, or whether they both will be alike good.
11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; because they will be many. All that comes is pointless.

Thought of God’s Judgement

11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, 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 judgment.
11:10 So remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: because childhood and youth are pointless.