24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
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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!
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …
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.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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…
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