Ecclesiastes 11:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 3:27

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

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.