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J
When E.F. Hutton talks...
In the New Living Translation, it's much clearer, and sounds like good investment advice, and/or being industrious, which passage context also supports.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.
Sometimes going places like Biblehub.com can give you some good insights from comparative translations, where, at least, you have some professional translation effort of the word of God, as opposed to commentators reaching for opinions on these more obscure verses.
In the New Living Translation, it's much clearer, and sounds like good investment advice, and/or being industrious, which passage context also supports.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.
Sometimes going places like Biblehub.com can give you some good insights from comparative translations, where, at least, you have some professional translation effort of the word of God, as opposed to commentators reaching for opinions on these more obscure verses.
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J
In other words, do good things to others, and the good you do will come back to you tenfold after awhile.. 
M
I've heard it used in various contexts over the years and I just came
across it today again.
Some people seem to suggest it means something along the lines give and it will
be given back, a full measure pressed down etc.
Ive heard others use it in the context that you can't out give a God.
Still others have referred to it in the context or prayer.
Maybe it is to do with commerce or maybe it has a deeper spiritual meaning.
I still don't have a clue.
Maybe someone can throw light on the original meaning in Hebrew?
across it today again.
Some people seem to suggest it means something along the lines give and it will
be given back, a full measure pressed down etc.
Ive heard others use it in the context that you can't out give a God.
Still others have referred to it in the context or prayer.
Maybe it is to do with commerce or maybe it has a deeper spiritual meaning.
I still don't have a clue.
Maybe someone can throw light on the original meaning in Hebrew?
J
but is it literal or spiritual?
(JIA? i kinda appreciate somma the commentators)
(JIA? i kinda appreciate somma the commentators
)
A
I believe Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon in his old age. He was gifted with wisdom more than any other man and yet he came to the conclusion that he had lived with an overabundance of pleasure most of his young life. "All is vanity", he proclaimed.
He ultimately tells us that to love God and enjoy the fruit of your labor is the way to live.
That verse about casting your bread upon the water is saying we have no control over circumstances. Things may or may not turn out the way we plan. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," so to speak.
He ultimately tells us that to love God and enjoy the fruit of your labor is the way to live.
That verse about casting your bread upon the water is saying we have no control over circumstances. Things may or may not turn out the way we plan. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," so to speak.
P
I believe Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon in his old age. He was gifted with wisdom more than any other man and yet he came to the conclusion that he had lived with an overabundance of pleasure most of his young life. "All is vanity", he proclaimed.
He ultimately tells us that to love God and enjoy the fruit of your labor is the way to live.
That verse about casting your bread upon the water is saying we have no control over circumstances. Things may or may not turn out the way we plan. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," so to speak.
He ultimately tells us that to love God and enjoy the fruit of your labor is the way to live.
That verse about casting your bread upon the water is saying we have no control over circumstances. Things may or may not turn out the way we plan. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," so to speak.
and chicken counting
eh, i stink at math.
M
I wonder if it was a common saying at the time but had a deeper meaning.
So if for example someone today wrote a book that included don't put all your
eggs in one basket. Then fast forward a few centuries someone might read it
and just take it as literal advice, when originally it had a far deeper meaning etc.
I would imagine the casting your bread etc, has a deeper meaning but it's just that we
no longer understand it.
So if for example someone today wrote a book that included don't put all your
eggs in one basket. Then fast forward a few centuries someone might read it
and just take it as literal advice, when originally it had a far deeper meaning etc.
I would imagine the casting your bread etc, has a deeper meaning but it's just that we
no longer understand it.