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If the clouds are full of rain,
    they will pour out on the earth;
if a tree falls toward the south or the north,
    wherever it falls, there it will lay.
Whoever keeps staring at the wind won’t sow;
    whoever daydreams[a] won’t reap.
Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit
    in the[b] womb of a pregnant mother,
so also you do not know
    what God is doing in everything he makes.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:4 Lit. who stares at clouds
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Lit. the bones in the

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