11:2a Divide your portion among seven, or even eight,

(Revised Standard Version: ) Give a portion to seven, or even to eight,

Share what you have with seven or eight others. (Contemporary English Version)
-or-
Share your things with several other people. (EEB)

11:2b for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.

⌊Do this⌋ because you do not know what disaster might happen in this world.
-or-
You do not know when trouble will come. Then those people can help you. (EEB)

© 2006 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.