Ecclesiastes 7:24
Far off [is] that which has been, and deep, deep, who finds it?
Literal Standard 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 tried by wisdom; I have said, “I am wise,” and it [is] far from me.
Cross References
Job 11:7Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One?
Job 28:23God has understood its way, || And He has known its place.
Psalms 36:6Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, || Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.
Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,
1 Timothy 6:16having immortality alone, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men saw, nor is able to see, to whom [is] honor and perpetual might! 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 →