Ecclesiastes 7:24
I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: “I will be wise.” And wisdom withdrew farther from me,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
25so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
Cross References
Job 11:7By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
Job 28:23God understands its way, and he knows its location.
Psalms 36:6And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:16who alone holds immortality, and who inhabits the inaccessible light, whom no man has seen, nor even is able to see, to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.
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 →