Ecclesiastes 7:24

Coverdale Bible (1535)

then she was before, yee & so depe that I might not reach vnto her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depenesse of the riches, both of the wyssdome and knowlege of God? How incomprehensible are his iudgmentes, and his wayes vnsearcheable?
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 which onely hath immortalite, and dwelleth in a lighte, that no man can attayne: whom no man hath sene, nether can se. Vnto whom be honoure and empyre euerlastinge, Amen.
  • Deut 30:11-14 : 11 For the commaundement which I commaunde ye this daye, is not to wonderfull for the, ner to farre, 12 ner yet in heauen, that thou neadest to saye: Who wil go vp for vs in to heauen, and brynge it vnto vs, that we maie heare it and do it? 13 Nether is it beyonde the see, that thou neadest to saye: Who wyll go ouer the see for vs, and fetch it vs, that we maye heare it, and do it? 14 For the worde is very nye vnto the, eue in thy mouth and in thine hert, that thou do it.
  • Job 11:7-8 : 7 Wilt thou fynde out God with thy sekynge? wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the Allmightie? 8 He is hyer the heaue, what wilt thou do? Deper the hell, how wilt thou then knowe him?
  • Job 28:12-23 : 12 How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge? 13 Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge. 14 The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me. 15 She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye. 16 No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her. 17 No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate. 18 There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all. 19 The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be. 20 From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge? 21 She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre. 22 Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares. 23 But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy rightuousnesse stondeth like the stronge mountaynes, & thy iudgment like the greate depe.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Whither shal I go then from thy sprete? Or, whither shal I fle from thy presence?
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For thus saieth the LORDE: My thoughtes are not youre thoughtes, & youre wayes are not my wayes: 9 But as farre as the heauens are hyer then the earth, so farre do my waies exceade yours, & my thoughtes yours

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    23All these thinges haue I proued because of wy?dome: for I thought to be wyse, but she wente farther fro me

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    25I applied my mynde also vnto knowlege, and to seke out sciece, wisdome and vnderstondinge: to knowe the foolishnesse of the vngodly, and the erroure of dotinge fooles.

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    7Wilt thou fynde out God with thy sekynge? wilt thou attayne to the perfectnesse of the Allmightie?

    8He is hyer the heaue, what wilt thou do? Deper the hell, how wilt thou then knowe him?

    9His length exceadeth the length of the earth, and his bredth ye bredth of the see.

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    12How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?

    13Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge.

    14The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my mynde to lerne wy?dome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde (and that of soch a fashion, yt I suffred not myne eyes to slepe nether daye ner night)

    17I vnderstode of all ye workes of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attayne vnto ye workes that are done vnder ye Sonne: and though he bestowe his laboure to seke them out, yet can he not reach vnto the: yee though a wyse man wolde vndertake to knowe them, yet might he not fynde them.

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    3For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete, but it shall be knowne? Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely, seynge these thinges are so hye, and passe myne vnderstondinge.

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    20From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?

    21She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre.

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    6Whither shal I go then from thy sprete? Or, whither shal I fle from thy presence?

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    2It is the honor of God to kepe a thinge secrete, but ye kinges honor is to search out a thinge.

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    13applyed my mynde to seke out & search for the knowlege of all thiges yt are done vnder heaue. Soch trauayle & labor hath God geue vnto ye childre of me, to exercyse the selues theri.

  • Eccl 1:15-18
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    15The croked can not be mayde straight, & the fautes ca not be nobred.

    16I comoned wt myne owne herte, sayege: lo, I am come to a greate estate, and haue gotte more wy?dome, the all they yt haue bene before me in Ierusalem. Yee my hert had greate experiece of wy?dome & knowlege,

    17for there vnto I applyed my mynde: yt I might knowe what were wy?dome & vnderstodinge, what were error & foolishnes. And I perceaued yt this also was but a vexacion of mynde:

    18for where moch wy?dome is, there is also greate trauayle & disquietnes: & ye more knowlege a man hath, the more is his care.

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    27Beholde (sayeth ye preacher) this haue I diligently searched out & proued, yt I might come by knowlege: which as yet I seke, and fynde it not.

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    33O the depenesse of the riches, both of the wyssdome and knowlege of God? How incomprehensible are his iudgmentes, and his wayes vnsearcheable?

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    13Considre the worke of God, how that no man can make the thinge straight, which he maketh croked.

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    16Then thought I to vnderstonde this, but it was to harde for me.

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    19the shewe me where light dwelleth, and where darcknes is:

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    36Who geueth sure wisdome, or stedfast vnderstodinge?

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    11A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?

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    24The LORDE ordreth euery mas goinges, for what is he, that vnderstondeth his owne wayes?

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    21(Which longe for death, and it commeth not: for yf they might fynde their graue,

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    29Lo, this onely haue I founde, that God made man iust & right, but they seke dyuerse sotylties,

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