Ecclesiastes/Qohelet 11

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 Cast your bread on the water, eventual y you wil recover it.	1 Mitte panem tuum super transeuntes aquas, quia post tempora multa invenies illum.
2 Offer a share to seven or to eight people, you can never tell what disaster may occur.	2 Da partem septem necnon et octo, quia ignoras quid futurum sit mali super terram.
3 When clouds are ful of rain, they wil shed it on the earth. If a tree fal s, whether south or north, whereit falls, there it wil lie.	3 Si repletæ fuerint nubes, imbrem super terram effundent. Si ceciderit lignum ad austrum aut ad aquilonem, in quocumque loco ceciderit, ibi erit.
4 Keep watching the wind and you wil never sow, keep staring at the clouds and you will never reap.	4 Qui observat ventum non seminat ; et qui considerat nubes numquam metet.
5 You do not understand how the wind blows, or how the embryo grows in a woman's womb: no morecan you understand the work of God, the Creator of al .	5 Quomodo ignoras quæ sit via spiritus, et qua ratione compingantur ossa in ventre prægnantis, sic nescis opera Dei, qui fabricator est omnium.
6 In the morning, sow your seed, until evening, do not cease from labour, for of any two things you donot know which wil succeed, or which of the two is the better.	6 Mane semina semen tuum, et vespere ne cesset manus tua : quia nescis quid magis oriatur, hoc aut illud ; et si utrumque simul, melius erit.
7 How sweet light is, how delightful it is to see the sun!	7 Dulce lumen, et delectabile est oculis videre solem.
8 However many years you live, enjoy them all, but remember, the days of darkness wil be many: futilityawaits you at the end.	8 Si annis multis vixerit homo, et in his omnibus lætatus fuerit, meminisse debet tenebrosi temporis, et dierum multorum, qui cum venerint, vanitatis arguentur præterita.
9 Young man, enjoy yourself while you are young, make the most of the days of your youth, follow theprompting and desire of heart and eye, but remember, God wil cal you to account for everything.	9 Lætare ergo, juvenis, in adolescentia tua, et in bono sit cor tuum in diebus juventutis tuæ : et ambula in viis cordis tui, et in intuitu oculorum tuorum, et scito quod pro omnibus his adducet te Deus in judicium.
10 Rid your heart of indignation, keep your body clear of suffering, though youth and the age of blackhair are both futile.	10 Aufer iram a corde tuo, et amove malitiam a carne tua : adolescentia enim et voluptas vana sunt.