1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it.
2 Give portions to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what disaster may happen upon the earth.
3 If the clouds are full, they empty out rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to south or north, the tree lies wherever it falls.
4 Whoever keeps watching the wind will not sow and whoever gazes at the clouds will not reap.
5 Just as you do not know how the spirit passes into the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes all things.