Ecclesiastes 11
1 mitte panem tuum super transeuntes aquas quia post multa tempora invenies illum
Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.
2 da partem septem necnon et octo quia ignoras quid futurum sit mali super terram
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know 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 conpingantur ossa in ventre praegnatis 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 you shall not know the works of God, [even] all things whatever he shall do.
6 mane semina sementem tuam et vespere ne cesset manus tua quia nescis quid magis oriatur hoc an illud et si utrumque simul melius erit
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.
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 omnibus his 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 adulescentia 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 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.
10 aufer iram a corde tuo et amove malitiam a carne tua adulescentia enim et voluptas vana sunt
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
