Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Cross References
Job 11:7Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 28:23God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God. Thy judgments are a great deep. O LORD, thou preserve man and beast.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.
1 Timothy 6:16who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →