Ecclesiastes 7:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

That which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

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  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see: to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
  • Deut 30:11-14 : 11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
  • Job 11:7-8 : 7 Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than the grave; what can you know?
  • Job 28:12-23 : 12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man does not know its value; nor is it found in the land of the living. 14 The depth says, 'It is not in me'; and the sea says, 'It is not with me.' 15 It cannot be bought with gold, nor shall silver be weighed for its price. 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or of pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold. 20 From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept secret from the birds of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, 'We have heard a report of it with our ears.' 23 God understands its way, and he knows its place.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And to man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 7:23
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    23All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Job 11:7-9
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    7Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?

    8It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than the grave; what can you know?

    9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • Job 28:12-14
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    78%

    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

    13Man does not know its value; nor is it found in the land of the living.

    14The depth says, 'It is not in me'; and the sea says, 'It is not with me.'

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

    17Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Job 42:3
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    3Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  • Job 28:20-21
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    20From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

    21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept secret from the birds of the air.

  • Ps 139:6-7
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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

    7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

  • Prov 25:2-3
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    2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; but the honor of kings is to search out a thing.

    3The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

  • Eccl 1:15-18
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    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be counted.

    16I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after wind.

    18For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Eccl 7:27
    74%

    27Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one to find out the sum.

  • Rom 11:33-34
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    33Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

    34For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?

  • Eccl 7:13
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    13Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that is not in us?

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

  • Job 9:10
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    10He does great things beyond finding out; yes, and wonders without number.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • Ps 73:16
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    16When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

    20That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

  • Job 38:36
    71%

    36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart?

  • Prov 8:12
    71%

    12I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

  • Ps 92:5
    71%

    5O LORD, how great are your works! And your thoughts are very deep.

  • Eccl 2:25
    70%

    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

  • Prov 20:24
    70%

    24A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

  • Prov 7:7
    70%

    7And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,

  • Job 3:21
    70%

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

  • Eccl 2:13
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    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 7:10
    70%

    10Do not say, 'Why were the former days better than these?' for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

  • Prov 20:5
    70%

    5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

  • Job 28:23
    70%

    23God understands its way, and he knows its place.