Ecclesiastes 7:24
All these things have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
25That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?
Cross References
Job 11:7Will you find out the traces of the Lord? or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?
Job 28:23God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.
Psalms 36:6And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noon-day. 1
Isaiah 55:8For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, says the Lord.
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 →