Ecclesiastes 7:24

Geneva Bible (1560)

(7:26) It is farre off, what may it be? And it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who onely hath immortalitie, and dwelleth in the light that none can attaine vnto, whom neuer man sawe, neither can see, vnto whome bee honour and power euerlasting, Amen.
  • Deut 30:11-14 : 11 For this commandement which I commande thee this day, is not hid from thee, neither is it farre off. 12 It is not in heauen, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go vp for vs to heauen, & bring it vs, and cause vs to heare it, that we may doe it? 13 Neither is it beyonde the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go ouer the sea for vs, & bring it vs, & cause vs to heare it, that we may do it? 14 But the word is very nere vnto thee: euen in thy mouth and in thine heart, for to do it.
  • Job 11:7-8 : 7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection? 8 The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hel, how canst thou know it?
  • Job 28:12-23 : 12 But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding? 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing. 14 The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me. 15 Golde shall not be giuen for it, neyther shall siluer be weighed for the price thereof. 16 It shall not be valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the precious onix, nor the saphir. 17 The golde nor the chrystall shall be equall vnto it, nor the exchange shalbe for plate of fine golde. 18 No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles. 19 The Topaz of Ethiopia shal not be equall vnto it, neither shall it be valued with the wedge of pure gold. 20 Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding, 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen? 22 Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares. 23 But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And vnto man he said, Behold, the feare of the Lord is wisedome, and to depart from euil is vnderstanding.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousnesse is like the mightie moutaines: thy iudgements are like a great deepe: thou, Lord, doest saue man and beast.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord. 9 For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:23
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    23(7:2) All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25(7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

  • Job 11:7-9
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    7Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

    8The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hel, how canst thou know it?

    9The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

  • Job 28:12-14
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    12But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

    13Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

    14The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

    17Then I behelde the whole worke of God, that man cannot finde out ye worke that is wrought vnder the sunne: for the which man laboureth to seeke it, and cannot finde it: yea, and though the wise man thinke to knowe it, he cannot finde it.

  • Job 42:3
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    3Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

  • Job 28:20-21
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    20Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding,

    21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?

  • Ps 139:6-7
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    6Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

    7Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

  • Prov 25:2-3
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    2The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret: but the Kings honour is to search out a thing.

    3The heaues in height, & the earth in deepenes, and the Kings heart can no man search out.

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I haue giuen mine heart to search and finde out wisdome by all things that are done vnder the heauen: (this sore trauaile hath GOD giuen to the sonnes of men, to humble them thereby)

  • Eccl 1:15-18
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    74%

    15That which is crooked, can none make straight: and that which faileth, cannot be nombred.

    16I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.

    17And I gaue mine heart to knowe wisdome and knowledge, madnes and foolishnes: I knew also that this is a vexation of the spirit.

    18For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.

  • Eccl 7:27
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    27(7:29) Beholde, sayth the Preacher, this haue I found, seeking one by one to finde the count:

  • Rom 11:33-34
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    33O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!

    34For who hath knowen the minde of the Lord? or who was his counsellour?

  • Eccl 7:13
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    13(7:15) Beholde the worke of God: for who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

    9What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

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    16Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? Or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.

  • Job 9:10
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    10He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lorde: for their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

  • Ps 73:16
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    16Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

    20That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

  • Job 38:36
    71%

    36Who hath put wisedome in the reines? Or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?

  • Prov 8:12
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    12I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.

  • Ps 92:5
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    5O Lord, how glorious are thy workes! and thy thoughtes are very deepe.

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    25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

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    11(7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

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    24The steps of man are ruled by the Lord: how can a man then vnderstand his owne way?

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

  • Job 3:21
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    21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

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    29(7:31) Onely loe, this haue I founde, that God hath made man righteous: but they haue sought many inuentions.

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    13Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10(7:12) Say not thou, Why is it that the former dayes were better then these? For thou doest not enquire wisely of this thing.

  • Prov 20:5
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    5The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.

  • Job 28:23
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    23But God vnderstandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.