1. Cast your bread over running waters. For, after a long time, you shall find it again.
2. Give a portion to seven, and indeed even to eight. For you do not know what evil may be upon the earth in the future.
3. If the clouds have been filled, they will pour forth rain upon the earth. If a tree falls to the south, or to the north, or to whatever direction it may fall, there it shall remain.
4. Whoever heeds the wind will not sow. And whoever considers the clouds will never reap.
5. In the same manner that you do not know the way of the spirit, nor the way that bones are joined together in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the works of God, who is the Maker of all.
6. In the morning, sow your seed, and in the evening, do not let your hand cease. For you do not know which of these may rise up, the one or the other. But if both rise up together, so much the better.