Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Cross References
Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 28:23God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth its place.
Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
1 Timothy 6:16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power 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 →