Ecclesiastes 11

1 Send out your bread on the waters, for you will find it again after many days.

当将你的粮食撒在水面， 因为日久必能得着。

2 Share it with seven, even eight people, for you do not know what disasters are coming on 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 are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it will remain.

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 Anyone who watches the wind might not plant, and anyone who watches the clouds might not harvest.

看风的，必不撒种； 望云的，必不收割。

5 As you do not know the path of the wind, nor how a baby's bones grow in the pregnant womb, so also you cannot comprehend the work of God, who created everything.

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 plant your seed; until the evening, work with your hands as needed, for you know not which will prosper, whether morning or evening, or this or that, or whether they will both alike be good.

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 Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

光本是佳美的，眼见日光也是可悦的。

8 If someone lives many years, let him be happy in all of them, but let him think about the coming days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is vanishing vapor.

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 Take joy, young man, in your youth, and let your heart be joyful in the days of your youth. Pursue the good desires of your heart, and whatever is within the sight of your eyes. However, know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

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 Drive anger away from your heart, and ignore any pain in your body, because youth and its strength are vapor.

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。