Ecclesiastes 11:4

New English Translation

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

Proverbs 3:27

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.