Ecclesiastes 11:4

He that observeth the wind shall not sow This is, as has been said above, the answer to the question suggested in Ecclesiastes 11:3. Our ignorance of the future is not to put a stop to action. If we allowed that "taking thought for the morrow" (Matthew 6:25) to hinder us from doing good, we should be as the husbandman who is always observing the clouds and lets the time of sowing pass by; who when harvest comes, watches the wind as it blows round him, till "the harvest is past, and the summer ended" (Jeremiah 8:20) and he can no longer reap. The very watching for opportunities may end in missing them. There are times when it is our wisdom to "be instant outof season" (2 Timothy 4:2).