1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. 2 Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land. 3 If 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. 4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap. 5 As 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. 6 Sow 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. 7 Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. 8 So 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. 9 Rejoice, 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. 10 So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
Eclesiastés · Majority Standard Bible
Eclesiastés 11 Majority Standard Bible
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Referencias cruzadas (10)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Eclesiastés 11:6; Proverbios 19:17; Mateo 10:42; Hebreos 6:10; 2 Corintios 9:6
- 2 1 Timoteo 6:18–19; Job 5:19; Salmo 112:9; Lucas 6:30–35; Proverbios 6:16
- 3 Salmo 65:9–13; Isaías 55:10–11; 1 Juan 3:17; Lucas 13:7; 1 Reyes 18:45
- 4 Proverbios 20:4; Proverbios 3:27; Proverbios 22:13
- 5 Juan 3:8; Salmo 92:5; Eclesiastés 8:17; Romanos 11:33; Isaías 40:28
- 6 2 Corintios 9:10–11; Isaías 55:10; Hageo 1:6–11; Oseas 10:12; 2 Corintios 9:6
- 7 Eclesiastés 7:11; Mateo 5:45; Proverbios 15:30; Salmo 84:11; Job 33:30
- 8 Juan 12:35; Deuteronomio 32:29; Eclesiastés 7:14; Joel 2:2; Job 14:10
- 9 Eclesiastés 12:14; 1 Juan 2:15–16; Eclesiastés 12:1; Eclesiastés 3:17; Lamentaciones 3:27
- 10 2 Corintios 7:1; 2 Timoteo 2:22; Eclesiastés 1:2; Eclesiastés 1:14; Eclesiastés 12:1
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Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
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 …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
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.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)