Cast your bread upon the waters, for you shall find it after many days

[hiflier]

What is the meaning of this quotation from Ecclesiastes?

[joggerjayne]

Something to do with feeding the ducks, I suppose.

[alexanderd]

Jayne, do you mean the ducks wont eat it so it will still be there after many days?

[Count-A-Strong]

Surely the ducks would have eaten it after many days.

[jno]

"Some believe it refers to maritime commerce, advising to send ships selling grain out to many different ports, for some are bound to gain success. Others believe it refers to casting seed on the shallow areas of a river, with the hope that some will take root. Whatever the literal meaning, the figurative lesson seems to be that a daring, seemingly foolish, distribution of your assets will yield returns in the future."

http://www.scriptures....com/Vol8/H2/wis.html

[joggerjayne]

I think it's to do with reaping what you sow.

If you are kind, and feed the ducks on the pond then, after a time ...

... you get to eat the duck.

[Count-A-Strong]

Cast the seed of the Word of God everywhere; upon all the waters. Cast it out broadly to many kinds of people through many kinds of ways. It will not disappear forever; you will see it again! But we must wait. We shall find it after many days! God promises.

[joggerjayne]

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[Count-A-Strong]

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