If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it [a]lies. He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. Just as you do not (A)know [b]the path of the wind and (B)how bones are formed in the womb of the [c]pregnant woman, so you do not (C)know the activity of God who makes all things.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:3 Lit is
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or with many mss how the spirit enters the bones in the womb
  3. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Lit full