Ecclesiastes 11:4

New American Bible - revised edition

One who pays heed to the wind will never sow, and one who watches the clouds will never reap.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “A lion is outside; I might be slain in the street.”

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold any goods from the owner when it is in your power to act.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

When the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there shall it lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother’s womb, So you do not know the work of God, who is working in everything.