Ecclesiastes 7:25
Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,
Cross References
Joshua 7:13Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The anathema is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that is defiled with this wickedness.
Proverbs 17:12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
Ecclesiastes 1:13And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.
Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:15And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:16I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
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 →