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Ecclesiastes 11:6-8
New Living Translation

6 Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

Advice for Young and Old

7 Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning.

8 When people live to be very old, let them rejoice in every day of life. But let them also remember there will be many dark days. Everything still to come is meaningless.

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Ecclesiastes 11:6-8
New International Version

6 Sow your seed in the morning,
    and at evening let your hands not be idle,(A)
for you do not know which will succeed,
    whether this or that,
    or whether both will do equally well.

Remember Your Creator While Young

7 Light is sweet,
    and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.(B)
8 However many years anyone may live,
    let them enjoy them all.
But let them remember(C) the days of darkness,
    for there will be many.
    Everything to come is meaningless.

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