Ecclesiastes 7:24

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
  • Deut 30:11-14 : 11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither 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 to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?" 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?" 14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
  • Job 11:7-8 : 7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
  • Job 28:12-23 : 12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding? 13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.' 15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price. 16 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 17 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies. 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky. 22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.' 23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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    23All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

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    25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

  • Job 11:7-9
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    7"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

    8They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

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

  • Job 28:12-14
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    12"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

    13Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

    14The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

    17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

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    3You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • Job 28:20-21
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    20Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

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

  • Ps 139:6-7
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    6This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

    7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

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    2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

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    13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • Eccl 1:15-18
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    15That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

    16I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

    17I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

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

  • Eccl 7:27
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    27"Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;

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

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

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    13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

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

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

  • Job 38:16
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    15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

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    16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

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

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    12"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

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    5How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

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

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    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

  • Prov 20:24
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    24A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 7:7
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    7I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."

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

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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

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    10Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

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

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