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When clouds are full of water,
    rain will fall on the earth.
If a tree falls to the ground,
    it will stay there, in the same place.
A farmer who waits for the right wind
    will never plant any seeds.
If he is always looking at the clouds,
    he will never bring in his crops.
We do not know the path that the wind blows along.
Nor do we know how a baby's body grows
    inside a pregnant woman.
So nobody can explain the things that God does.
    He is the one who has made everything.

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If clouds are full of water,
    they pour rain on the earth.
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
Whoever watches the wind will not plant;
    whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

As you do not know the path of the wind,(A)
    or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed