Ecclesiastes 11

1 Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.

当将你的粮食撒在水面， 因为日久必能得着。

2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

你要分给七人，或分给八人， 因为你不知道将来有什么灾祸临到地上。

3 If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour [it] out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

云若满了雨，就必倾倒在地上。 树若向南倒，或向北倒， 树倒在何处，就存在何处。

4 He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

看风的，必不撒种； 望云的，必不收割。

5 Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones [are hid] in the womb of a pregnant [woman], so you shall not know the works of God, [even] all things whatever he shall do.

风从何道来，骨头在怀孕妇人的胎中如何长成，你尚且不得知道；这样，行万事之 神的作为，你更不得知道。

6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack: for you know not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.

早晨要撒你的种，晚上也不要歇你的手，因为你不知道哪一样发旺；或是早撒的，或是晚撒的，或是两样都好。

7 Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

光本是佳美的，眼见日光也是可悦的。

8 For even if a man should live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

人活多年，就当快乐多年；然而也当想到黑暗的日子。因为这日子必多，所要来的都是虚空。

9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

少年人哪，你在幼年时当快乐。在幼年的日子，使你的心欢畅，行你心所愿行的，看你眼所爱看的；却要知道，为这一切的事， 神必审问你。

10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.

所以，你当从心中除掉愁烦，从肉体克去邪恶；因为一生的开端和幼年之时，都是虚空的。