Ecclesiastes 11:4

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But there are some things that you cannot be sure of. You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

Some people are too lazy to plant seeds. So at harvest time, they look for food and find nothing.

Proverbs 3:27

Do everything you possibly can for those who need help.

Proverbs 22:13

A person who is lazy and wants to stay home says, “There is a lion outside, and I might be killed in the streets!”

Ecclesiastes 11:3

There are some things you can be sure of. If clouds are full of rain, they will pour water on the earth. If a tree falls—to the south or to the north—then it will stay where it falls.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

You don’t know where the wind blows. And you don’t know how a baby grows in its mother’s womb. In the same way, you don’t know what God will do—and he makes everything happen.