Ecclesiastes 11:1
World English Bible (WEB)
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
In context
1 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
Ecclesiastes 11:1 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
- KJV King James Version
- Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.