111 Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.
111 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
111 e generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns.
111 Cast your bread upon the waters, For you will find it after many days.
111 Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.
7 Samaria's king will be destroyed, swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
7 Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
7 Samaria is history. Its king is a dead branch floating down the river.
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off Like a twig on the water.
7 Samaria and its king will be cut off; they will float away like driftwood on an ocean wave.
(Read Hosea 10:1-8)
A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ecclesiastes 11:1
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
(Read Ecclesiastes 11:1-6)
Solomon presses the rich to do good to others. Give freely, though it may seem thrown away and lost. Give to many. Excuse not thyself with the good thou hast done, from the good thou hast further to do. It is not lost, but well laid out. We have reason to expect evil, for we are born to trouble; it is wisdom to do good in the day of prosperity. Riches cannot profit us, if we do not benefit others. Every man must labour to be a blessing to that place where the providence of God casts him. Wherever we are, we may find good work to do, if we have but hearts to do it. If we magnify every little difficulty, start objections, and fancy hardships, we shall never go on, much less go through with our work. Winds and clouds of tribulation are, in God's hands, designed to try us. God's work shall agree with his word, whether we see it or not. And we may well trust God to provide for us, without our anxious, disquieting cares. Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season, in God's time, you shall reap, Galatians 6:9.