Ecclesiastes 11
1 Mitte panem tuum super transeuntes aquas: quia post tempora multa invenies illum.
Send forth thy bread upon the face of the water: for thou shalt find it after many days.
2 Da partes septem, necnon et octo: quia ignoras quid futurum sit mali super terram.
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth.
3 Si repletae fuerint nubes, imbrem super terram effundent. Si ceciderit lignum ad Austrum, aut ad Aquilonem, in quocumque loco ceciderit, ibi erit.
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.
4 Qui observat ventum, non seminat: et qui considerat nubes, numquam metet.
He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.
5 Quomodo ignoras quae sit via spiritus, et qua ratione compingantur ossa in ventre praegnantis; sic nescis opera Dei, qui fabricator est omnium.
Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones [are hid] in the womb of a pregnant [woman], so thou shalt not know the works of God, [even] all things whatsoever he shall do.
6 Mane semina semen tuum, et vespere ne cesset manus tua: quia nescis quid magis oriatur, hoc aut illud: et si utrumque simul, melius erit.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thine hand be slack: for thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.
7 Dulce lumen, et delectabile est oculis videre solem.
Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
8 Si annis multis vixerit homo, et in his omnibus laetatus fuerit, meminisse debet tenebrosi temporis, et dierum multorum: qui cum venerint, vanitatis arguentur praeterita.
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.
9 Laetare ergo iuvenis in adolescentia tua, et in bono sit cor tuum in diebus iuventutis tuae, et ambula in viis cordis tui, et in intuitu oculorum tuorum: et scito quod pro omnibus his adducet te Deus in iudicium.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
10 Aufer iram a corde tuo, et amove malitiam a carne tua. Adolescentia enim et voluptas vana sunt.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
