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          DASV: Ecclesiastes 11

1 Send your bread across the sea,
     for after many days you may gain a return from it.
2 Divide your investments seven ways, or even eight,
     for you do not know what disaster may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain,
     they empty themselves on the earth,
  if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
     in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 Whoever holds out for the perfect wind will not sow,
     and whoever watches the clouds will not reap.
5 Just as you do not know the way of the wind,
     or how the bones grow in a mother's womb,
           even so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed,
     and in the evening do not stop working,
   for you do not know which will prosper,
     whether this one or that one,
   or whether both will be equally profitable.

7 Light is sweet,
     and it is a pleasure for the eyes to see the sun.
8 If a person lives many years,
     let him rejoice in them all;
   but let him also remember the days of darkness,
     for they will be many.
   All that comes is futility.
9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
     and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.
   Follow in the ways of your heart,
     and the desires of your eyes;
   but be aware that for all these things
     God will bring you into judgment.
10 Banish worry from your heart,
     and put away pain from your flesh,
           for childhood and youth are fleeting.

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