Ecclesiastes 7:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ecclesiastes 7:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Psalms 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-29)

Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. That ... far off ... deep--True wisdom is so when sought independently of “fear of God” (Ec 7:18; De 30:12, 13; Job 11:7, 8; 28:12-20, 28; Psa 64:6; Ro 10:6, 7).