Ecclesiastes 11:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Whoever observes the wind will not sow, and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Common English Bible

⁴ Those who watch the wind blow will never sow, and those who observe the clouds will never reap.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Whoever heeds the wind will not sow. And whoever considers the clouds will never reap.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”

Ecclesiastes 11:3

When clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.