In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
⛓ Read Ecclesiastes 11 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The seed-sowing wisdom of 'in the morning sow your seed... you do not know which will prosper' lies behind the grain-of-wheat agricultural maxim, though Jesus inverts it: the seed must die to bear fruit. Faint and generic; sowing imagery was broadly available.
Low confidenceQoheleth's counsel to sow seed without knowing which will prosper resonates with the indiscriminate scattering across four soils in 4:4-8. The thematic coherence (uncertain outcome of sowing) is real but the image is proverbial, lowering volume and distinctiveness.
Low confidence