Ecclesiastes 11:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

Proverbs 3:27

Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.