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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那離得遠又極深奧的，誰能找到呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
万 事 之 理 ， 离 我 甚 远 ， 而 且 最 深 ， 谁 能 测 透 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

²³ I used wisdom to test all these things. I wanted to be wise, but it was too hard for me. ²⁴ I cannot understand why things are as they are. It is too hard for anyone to understand. ²⁵ I studied and tried very hard to find wisdom, to find some meaning for everything. I learned that it is foolish to be evil, and it is crazy to act like a fool. ²⁶ I found that some women are worse than death and are as dangerous as traps. Their love is like a net, and their arms hold men like chains. A man who pleases God will be saved from them, but a sinner will be caught by them. ²⁷ The Teacher says, "This is what I learned: I added all these things together to find some meaning for everything. ²⁸ While I was searching, I did not find one man among the thousands I found. Nor did I find a woman among all these. ²⁹ One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 30:11-14, Job 11:7, Job 11:8, Job 28:12-23, Job 28:28, Psalms 36:6, Psalms 139:6, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, Romans 11:33, 1 Timothy 6:16

Reciprocal: Job 28:20 - General Psalms 92:5 - deep Ecclesiastes 1:8 - man Ecclesiastes 7:28 - yet Ecclesiastes 8:17 - that a man Ecclesiastes 11:5 - even

Cross-References

Genesis 7:3
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That which is far off,.... Or, "far off [is] that which has been" g. That which has been done by God already, in creation and providence, is out of the reach of men, is far from their understandings wholly to comprehend or account for; and likewise that which is past with men, what has been done in former ages, the history of past times, is very difficult to come at: or rather, according to Schmidt, and Rambachius after him, what was of old is now afar off or absent; the image of God in man which consisted of perfect wisdom, and was created at the same time with him, is now lost, and that is the reason why wisdom is far from him;

and exceeding deep, who can find it out? the primitive perfect wisdom is sunk so deep and gone, that no man can find it to the perfection it was once enjoyed; see Job 28:12. This may respect the knowledge of God, and the perfections of his nature; which are as high as heaven, and deeper than hell, Job 11:7; and of his thoughts, counsels, purposes, and decrees, which are the deep things of God; as well as the doctrines of the Gospel, and the mysteries of grace, 1 Corinthians 2:10; and even his providential dispensations towards the sons of men, Romans 11:33. The Targum of the whole is,

"Lo, now it is far off from the children of men to know all that has been from the days of old; and the secret of the day of death, and the secret of the day in which the King Messiah shall come, who is he that shall find it out by his wisdom?''

g רחוק מה שהיה "remotum (est) illud quod fuit", Montanus, Mercerus, Vatablus, Drusius, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

literally, Far off is that which hath been i. e., events as they have occurred in the order of Divine Providence), and deep, deep, who can find it out?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. That which is far off — Though the wisdom that is essential to our salvation may be soon learned, through the teaching of the Spirit of wisdom, yet in wisdom itself there are extents and depths which none can reach or fathom.