Eccl 11:1

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Ec 11:1 Directions for charity.

Ec 11:7 Death in life,

Ec 11:9 and the day ofjudgment in the days of youth, are to be thought on.

Cast.

That is, says Bp. Lowth, "Sow thy seed or corn on the face of the waters;" in plain terms, sow without any hope of a harvest: do good even to them on whom your benefactions seem thrown away. Dr. Jebb has well illustrated it by the following passages: "Vain are the favours done to vicious men; Not vainer 'tis to sow the foaming deep.

The deep no pleasant harvest shall afford, Nor will the wicked ever make return." "To befriend the wicked is like sowing in the sea." These, indeed, invert this precept; nor is it extraordinary that they should; "The one, frail human power alone produced, The other, God." thy bread.

Deut 15:7-11; Prov 11:24; Prov 11:25; Prov 22:9; Isa 32:8

waters. Heb. face of the waters.

Isa 32:20

for.

Eccl 11:6; Deut 15:10; Ps 41:1; Ps 41:2; Ps 126:5; Ps 126:6; Prov 11:18; Prov 19:17; Matt 10:13; Matt 10:42; Matt 25:40

Luke 14:14; 2Cor 9:6; Gal 6:8-10; Heb 6:10