Versículo del Día — Domingo, 18 de octubre de 2026

The speaker in Ecclesiastes calls himself the Teacher, an old and thoughtful man who has spent the whole book looking hard at life and admitting how little anyone can control or predict. By chapter 11 he turns from those hard observations to some practical advice, and he reaches for the world of farming, which everyone around him would have known well.

Picture a farmer at planting time. If he stands in the field watching the wind, worried it will blow his seed away, he will never sow. Then at harvest, if he keeps staring at the clouds, afraid rain will ruin the grain once it's cut, he will never bring it in. Both men are being careful, and both end up with nothing, because the season passes while they wait.

The verses around it fill out the thought. Just before, the Teacher says that when clouds are full they will rain, and a fallen tree lies wherever it falls, so some things simply happen and no amount of watching changes them. Right after, he says you don't know the path of the wind or how a baby forms in its mother's womb, and in the same way you can't understand all that God is doing. Then he gives the plain advice: sow your seed in the morning and keep working in the evening, since you don't know which effort will succeed, or whether both will.

There is a small detail in the original Hebrew that ties these verses together. The word for "wind" in verse 4 is the same word used in verse 5 for the wind whose path no one knows, a word that can also mean breath or spirit. So the Teacher is pointing at the very thing the farmer keeps watching and saying, in effect, that it is something no one can read anyway.

That is the heart of the verse. Life is uncertain, and the Teacher is honest about that, yet he refuses to let uncertainty become a reason to stand still. Since nobody can know how things will turn out, the sensible thing is to do the work in front of you and leave the outcome to God.