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Ecclesiastes 7:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out? "
Ecclesiastes 7:24
Verse in Context
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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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
"A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth."
Ecclesiastes 7:2
"It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart."
Ecclesiastes 7:3
"Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good."
Ecclesiastes 7:4
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
Ecclesiastes 7:5
"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools."
Ecclesiastes 7:6
"For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity."
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