Ecclesiastes 7:24
I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.
25Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
Cross References
Job 11:7Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?
Job 28:23God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Psalms 36:6O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth, even to the clouds.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:16Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. 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 →