Ecclesiastes 7:24
World English Bible (WEB)
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
In context
22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
23 All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
25 I 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.
26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
Ecclesiastes 7:24 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- KJV King James Version
- That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
- 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?