Ecclesiastes 7:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom `is' honour and might age-during! Amen.
  • Deut 30:11-14 : 11 `For this command which I am commanding thee to-day, it is not too wonderful for thee, nor `is' it far off. 12 It is not in the heavens, -- saying, Who doth go up for us into the heavens, and doth take it for us, and doth cause us to hear it -- that we may do it. 13 And it `is' not beyond the sea, -- saying, Who doth pass over for us beyond the sea, and doth take it for us, and doth cause us to hear it -- that we may do it? 14 For very near unto thee is the word, in thy mouth, and in thy heart -- to do it.
  • Job 11:7-8 : 7 By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? 8 Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
  • Job 28:12-23 : 12 And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding? 13 Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living. 14 The deep hath said, `It `is' not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.' 15 Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed -- its price. 16 It is not valued with pure gold of Ophir, With precious onyx and sapphire, 17 Not equal it do gold and crystal, Nor `is' its exchange a vessel of fine gold. 18 Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom `is' above rubies. 19 Not equal it doth the topaz of Cush, With pure gold it is not valued. 20 And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where `is' this, the place of understanding? 21 It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden. 22 Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.' 23 God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousness `is' as mountains of God, Thy judgments `are' a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
  • Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For not My thoughts `are' your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, 9 For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

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    23All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Job 11:7-9
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    7By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

    8Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

    9Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.

  • Job 28:12-14
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    12And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

    13Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

    14The deep hath said, `It `is' not in me,' And the sea hath said, `It is not with me.'

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Job 42:3
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    3`Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

  • Job 28:20-21
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    20And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

    21It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

  • Ps 139:6-7
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    6Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

    7Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?

  • Prov 25:2-3
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    2The honour of God `is' to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

    3The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings -- `are' unsearchable.

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

  • Eccl 1:15-18
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    15A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

    18for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

  • Eccl 7:27
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    27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

  • Rom 11:33-34
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    33O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

    34for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

  • Eccl 7:13
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    13See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

    9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

  • Job 38:16
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    16Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

  • Prov 17:24
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    24The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

  • Job 9:10
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    10Doing great things till there is no searching, And wonderful, till there is no numbering.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Wo `to' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

  • Ps 73:16
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    16And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

    20That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

  • Job 38:36
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    36Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

  • Prov 8:12
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    12I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.

  • Ps 92:5
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    5How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

  • Prov 20:24
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    24From Jehovah `are' the steps of a man, And man -- how understandeth he his way?

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

  • Job 3:21
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    21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

  • Eccl 7:29
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    29See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.

  • Eccl 2:13
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    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

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    10Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

  • Prov 20:5
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    5Counsel in the heart of a man `is' deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.

  • Job 28:23
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    23God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.