That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7:24 Go To Ecclesiastes 7
Jerome
AD 420
What Ecclesiastes is saying is this: Before I turned my thoughts to ponder over God’s work, I was not aware of God’s magnificence. I said, I must have wisdom; that is, I must inquire into the nature of every cause; and wisdom withdrew farther away from me than it ever was before. By that I mean, formerly I was not in quest of wisdom because I was unaware of it, and afterwards, when I began to seek it, I could not find it. Homilies on the Psalms (Psalm ).
