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If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there it will lie.

Whoever keeps watching the wind will never sow, and anyone who keeps looking at the clouds will never reap.

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

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or the way of the spirit

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