Bible verse
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
Ecclesiastes 7:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 7.
20 Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
21 Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.
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.
27 “Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
28 While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
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?
ERV
That which is is far off, and exceeding deep; who can find it out?
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