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Ecclesiastes 11:1-2
New Living Translation

The Uncertainties of Life

11 Send your grain across the seas,
    and in time, profits will flow back to you.[a]
2 But divide your investments among many places,[b]
    for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:1 Or Give generously, / for your gifts will return to you later. Hebrew reads Throw your bread on the waters, / for after many days you will find it again.
  2. 11:2 Hebrew among seven or even eight.
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