1. Send your bread out on the water because, in the course of time, you may find it again.
2. Give a portion to seven people, even to eight: you don’t know what disaster may come upon the land.
3. If clouds fill up, they will empty out rain on the earth. If a tree falls, whether to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there it will lie.
4. Those who watch the wind blow will never sow, and those who observe the clouds will never reap.