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Ecclesiastes · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)

Ecclesiastes 11 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)

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About Vamvas
  • Individual translator
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Textus Receptus (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1850
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Ρίψον τον άρτον σου επί πρόσωπον των υδάτων· διότι εν ταις πολλαίς ημέραις θέλεις ευρεί αυτόν.
1 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
2 Δος μερίδιον εις επτά και έτι εις οκτώ· διότι δεν εξεύρεις τι κακόν θέλει γείνει επί της γης.
2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
3 Εάν τα νέφη ήναι πλήρη, θέλουσι διαχύσει βροχήν επί την γήν· και εάν δένδρον πέση προς τον νότον ή προς τον βορράν, εν τω τόπω όπου πέση το δένδρον, εκεί θέλει μείνει.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
4 Όστις παρατηρεί τον άνεμον, δεν θέλει σπείρει· και όστις θεωρεί τα νέφη, δεν θέλει θερίσει.
4 He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
5 Καθώς δεν γνωρίζεις τις η οδός του ανέμου ουδέ τίνι τρόπω μορφόνονται τα οστά εν τη κοιλία της κυοφορούσης, ούτω δεν γνωρίζεις τα έργα του Θεού, όστις κάμνει τα πάντα.
5 As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
6 Σπείρε τον σπόρον σου το πρωΐ, και την εσπέραν ας μη ησυχάση η χειρ σου· διότι δεν εξεύρεις τι θέλει ευδοκιμήσει, τούτο ή εκείνο, ή εάν και τα δύο ήναι επίσης αγαθά.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
7 Γλυκύ βέβαια είναι το φως, και ευάρεστον εις τους οφθαλμούς να βλέπωσι τον ήλιον·
7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.
8 αλλά και εάν ο άνθρωπος ζήση έτη πολλά και ευφραίνηται εν πάσι τούτοις, ας ενθυμηθή όμως τας ημέρας του σκότους, ότι θέλουσιν είσθαι πολλαί. Πάντα τα συμβαίνοντα ματαιότης.
8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Ευφραίνου, νεανίσκε, εν τη νεότητί σου· και η καρδία σου ας σε χαροποιή εν ταις ημέραις της νεότητός σου· και περιπάτει κατά τας επιθυμίας της καρδίας σου και κατά την όρασιν των οφθαλμών σου· πλην έξευρε, ότι διά πάντα ταύτα ο Θεός θέλει σε φέρει εις κρίσιν.
9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and 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 into judgment.
10 Και αφαίρεσον τον θυμόν από της καρδίας σου, και απομάκρυνον την πονηρίαν από της σαρκός σου· διότι η νεότης και η παιδική ηλικία είναι ματαιότης.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Ecclesiastes 11:6; Proverbs 19:17; Matthew 10:42; Hebrews 6:10; 2 Corinthians 9:6
  2. 2 1 Timothy 6:18–19; Job 5:19; Psalm 112:9; Luke 6:30–35; Proverbs 6:16
  3. 3 Psalm 65:9–13; Isaiah 55:10–11; 1 John 3:17; Luke 13:7; 1 Kings 18:45
  4. 4 Proverbs 20:4; Proverbs 3:27; Proverbs 22:13
  5. 5 John 3:8; Psalm 92:5; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:28
  6. 6 2 Corinthians 9:10–11; Isaiah 55:10; Haggai 1:6–11; Hosea 10:12; 2 Corinthians 9:6
  7. 7 Ecclesiastes 7:11; Matthew 5:45; Proverbs 15:30; Psalm 84:11; Job 33:30
  8. 8 John 12:35; Deuteronomy 32:29; Ecclesiastes 7:14; Joel 2:2; Job 14:10
  9. 9 Ecclesiastes 12:14; 1 John 2:15–16; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ecclesiastes 3:17; Lamentations 3:27
  10. 10 2 Corinthians 7:1; 2 Timothy 2:22; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 12:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 11:9 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XV)

    This coming of the Lord, and the end of the world, were known to the Preacher; who says, Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and the rest; Therefore remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh;...and remember thy Creator...or ever the evil days come,....or ever the sun, and the light, and the moon, and …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  2. Quotes verse 11:2 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapters XXI–XXIII)

    Further, observe that the number seven denotes all the present time, as the most wise Solomon says, to give a portion to seven and also to eight.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)