Parallel Verses
Amplified
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Holman Bible
for after many days you may find it.
International Standard Version
Spread your bread on the water after a while you will find it.
A Conservative Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days.
American Standard Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Bible in Basic English
Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
Darby Translation
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Julia Smith Translation
Send forth thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in a multitude of days thou shalt find it
King James 2000
Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it.
Modern King James verseion
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Send thy victuals over the waters, and so shalt thou find them after many years.
NET Bible
Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.
New Heart English Bible
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
The Emphasized Bible
Cast thy bread-corn, upon the face of the waters, - for, after many days, shalt thou find it:
Webster
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
World English Bible
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Youngs Literal Translation
Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
Themes
Bearing fruit » Who shall not sow and reap
Benevolence » The duty of » The wise man's advice
Giving and gifts » The reward for giving
Seed » Often sown beside rivers
Seven » Miscellany of sevens » Symbolical » Of liberality
Social duties » Benevolence, the duty of » The wise man's advice
Interlinear
Shalach
Lechem
Paniym
Matsa'
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 11:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living In The Light Of The Limits Of Human Knowledge
1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:17
He who is gracious and lends a hand to the poor lends to the Lord,
And the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
Matthew 10:42
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His name in ministering to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle with your hands in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening planting will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [
You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.
Luke 14:14
Deuteronomy 15:7-11
“If there is a poor man among you, one of your fellow Israelites, in
Psalm 41:1-2
The Lord will save him in the day of trouble.
Psalm 126:5-6
They who sow in tears shall reap with joyful singing.
Proverbs 11:18
The wicked man earns deceptive wages,
But he who sows righteousness and lives his life with integrity will have a true reward [that is both permanent and satisfying].
Proverbs 11:24-25
There is the one who [generously] scatters [abroad], and yet increases all the more;
And there is the one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want and poverty.
Proverbs 22:9
He who is generous will be blessed,
For he gives some of his food to the poor.
Isaiah 32:8
But the noble man conceives noble and magnificent things;
And he stands by what is noble and magnificent.
Matthew 10:13
Matthew 25:40
2 Corinthians 9:6
Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows
Galatians 6:8-10
For the one who sows to his flesh [his sinful capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses] will reap from the flesh ruin and destruction, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.