1
Send your bread upon the face of the waters, for after many days you shall find it.
2
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil shall be upon the earth.
3
If the clouds are filled with rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. And if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall remain.
4
The one who watches the wind shall not sow, and the one who looks at the clouds shall not reap.
5
Just as you do not know the way of the ruach, or how the bones form in the womb of the pregnant ishah, so you do not know the work of Elohim, who makes all things.
6
In the morning sow your seed, and toward evening do not let your hand rest. For you do not know which shall prosper— this or that— or whether both alike shall be good.
7
Sweet is the light, and good for the eyes to see the sun.
8
But if Adam lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. Yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. Everything that comes is vapor.
9
Rejoice, young ish, in your youth, and let your heart make you glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things Elohim shall bring you into Judgment.
10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put evil away from your flesh. For youth and the dawn of life are vapor.