Ecclesiastes 11:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall 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 slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets.

Proverbs 3:27

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.