CAST thy bread ¹upon the │ CAST thy bread on the face waters: for thou shalt find it │ of the waters: for in the after many days. │ multitude of the days――thou │ wilt find it. ¹ _Hebrew_ upon the face of │ the waters. │ XI. (1.) =Cast thy bread upon the face of the waters, for in the multitude of the days thou shalt find it.= (This passage is usually taken as an exhortation to liberality. Hengstenberg however understands it to refer to ships and their cargo of grain. ♦Zöckler refers to Proverbs xi. 24 for a similar sentiment, and Luke xvi. 9; the idea is clearly that of an unexpected return). ♦ “Zökler” replaced with “Zöckler” for consistency 2 Give a portion to seven, │ Give a share all round, and and also to eight; for thou │ to some one else beside, for knowest not what evil shall be │ thou dost not know what sort of upon the earth. │ mischief shall be in the earth. (2.) =Give a portion to seven, and also to eight= (see Job v. 19, Micah v. 4 (5), for similar idioms; it is equivalent to our ‘everybody, and some one else’), =for not dost thou know what shall be mischief upon the earth.= 3 If the clouds be full of │ IF the clouds are FULL of rain, they empty _themselves_ │ rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the │ upon the earth; and if falls tree fall toward the south, or │ the tree by the south [wind] or toward the north, in the place │ by the north――the place where where the tree falleth, there │ the tree _falls_ is just where it shall be. │ it will be.