King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 7:24
“That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 7
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For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me.
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That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
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I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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