| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Spread your bread on the water— after a while you will find it. | 1Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. |
| 2Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land. | 2Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land. |
| 3If the clouds are full of rain, they will pour out on the earth; if a tree falls toward the south or the north, wherever it falls, there it will lay. | 3If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie. |
| 4Whoever keeps staring at the wind won't sow; whoever daydreams won't reap. | 4He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap. |
| 5Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes. | 5As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. |
| 6Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well. | 6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper. |
| 7How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone's eyes to behold the sunshine! | 7Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. |
| 8Even if a person lives many years, let him enjoy them all, recalling that there will be many days of darkness to come—all of which are pointless. | 8So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile. |
| 9So enjoy yourself in your youth, young man, and be encouraged during your younger days. Live as you like, consistent with your world view, but keep in mind that God will bring you to account for everything. | 9Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be 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 God will bring you to judgment. |
| 10Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless. | 10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting. |
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