Ecclesiastes 7:24 - 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,

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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?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: "I will be wise." And wisdom withdrew 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, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Job 37:23

We cannot find him worthily. He is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice: and he is ineffable.

Psalm 139:6

the proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Psalm 36:6

And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

1 Timothy 6:16

Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.