Ecclesiastes 7:24
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
In context
22 For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
23 All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
24 What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
25 I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Ecclesiastes 7:24 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
- KJV King James Version
- That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
- WEB World English Bible
- That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- ASV American Standard Version
- That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Far off [is] that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?
- DBY Darby Translation
- Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?
- WBS Webster Bible
- That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?