Modern Translations New International VersionShip your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. New Living Translation Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. English Standard Version Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Berean Study Bible Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. New American Standard Bible Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. NASB 1995 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. NASB 1977 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. Amplified Bible Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will find it after many days. Christian Standard Bible Send your bread on the surface of the water, for after many days you may find it. Holman Christian Standard Bible Send your bread on the surface of the waters, for after many days you may find it. Contemporary English Version Be generous, and someday you will be rewarded. Good News Translation Invest your money in foreign trade, and one of these days you will make a profit. GOD'S WORD® Translation Throw your bread on the surface of the water, because you will find it again after many days. International Standard Version Spread your bread on the water— after a while you will find it. NET Bible Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return. Classic Translations King James BibleCast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. New King James Version Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days. King James 2000 Bible Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days. New Heart English Bible Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. World English Bible Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. American King James Version Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days. American Standard Version Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. A Faithful Version Cast your bread upon the waters; for you shall find it after many days. Darby Bible Translation Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. English Revised Version Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Webster's Bible Translation Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Early Modern Geneva Bible of 1587Cast thy bread vpon the waters: for after many daies thou shalt finde it. Bishops' Bible of 1568 Lay thy bread vpon wette faces, and so shalt thou finde it after many dayes. Coverdale Bible of 1535 Sende thy vytayles ouer the waters, and so shalt thou fynde the after many yeares. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionSend forth your bread on the face of the waters, "" For in the multitude of the days you find it. Young's Literal Translation Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it. Smith's Literal Translation Send forth thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in a multitude of days thou shalt find it. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleCast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. Catholic Public Domain Version Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again. Translations from Aramaic Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedSend your bread upon the face of the waters, for after many days you will find it Lamsa Bible CAST your bread upon the waters; for you shall find it after many days. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Cast thy bread upon the waters, For thou shalt find it after many days. Brenton Septuagint Translation Send forth thy bread upon the face of the water: for thou shalt find it after many days.     |