Ecclesiastes 7:24 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: "I will be wise." And wisdom withdrew farther from me,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ That which is is far off, and that which is deep is very deep–who can find it out [true wisdom independent of the fear of God]? [Job 28:12-28; I Cor. 2:9-16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

Common English Bible

²⁴ All that happens is elusive and utterly unfathomable. Who can grasp it?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from me,

English Standard Version 2016

²⁴ That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 7:24 Tagairtí Cros

Job 28:28

And he said to man, "Behold the fear of the Lord. Such is wisdom. And to withdraw from evil, this is understanding."

Job 37:23

We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.

Psalm 139:6

The arrogant have hidden a snare for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare. They have placed a stumbling block for me near the road.

Psalm 36:6

And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I understood that man is able to find no explanation for all those works of God which are done under the sun. And so, the more that he labors to seek, so much the less does he find. Yes, even if a wise man were to claim that he knows, he would not be able to discover it.

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depths of the richness of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable are his ways!

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone holds immortality, and who inhabits the inaccessible light, whom no man has seen, nor even is able to see, to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.