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If the clouds are full, they empty the 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 [b]watches the wind will not sow, and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. Just as you do not (A)know [c]the path of the wind and (B)how bones are formed in the womb of the [d]pregnant woman, so you do not (C)know the work of God who works all things.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:3 Lit is
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:4 Lit keeps
  3. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Many mss how the spirit enters the bones in the womb
  4. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Lit full

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