| Ecclesiastes 7:24 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | What has been is remote and exceedingly mysterious. Who can discover it? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Whatever wisdom may be, it is out of reach. It is deep, very deep. Who can find out what it is?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? |
| ASV: | That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out? |
| BBE: | Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it? |
| DBY: | Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out? |
| ERV: | That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out? |
| JPS: | That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out? |
| WBS: | That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out? |
| WEB: | That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? |
| YLT: | Far off is that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it? |
| Ecclesiastes 7:24 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 11:7 "Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?
Job 37:23 "The Almighty-- we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 8:17 and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, "I know," he cannot discover.
Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 7:24 That which is far off, {r} and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?
(r) Meaning wisdom. |
| WES: | 7:24 It - God's counsels and works, and the reasons of them. |
| MHC: | 7:23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women, |
| CONC: | Deep Discover Exceeding Exceedingly Existence Mysterious Profound Remote Whatever Wisdom |
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