Ecclesiastes 7:24
Everything that exists is beyond our grasp—too deep for our understanding. Who can comprehend it?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
Cross References
Job 11:7Can you find out the mysteries of God? Can you discover all the wisdom of the Almighty?
Job 28:23Only God understands the path to wisdom; he knows where it is found.
Psalms 36:6Your goodness is like the highest mountains, your fairness is like the deepest oceans. Lord, you save both the people and the animals.
Isaiah 55:8For your thoughts are not my thoughts; and your ways are not my ways, declares the Lord.
1 Timothy 6:16He is the only one who is immortal, and lives in unapproachable light. No one has seen him or can see him—honor and eternal power is his! 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 →