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An observer looks into a deep dark ravine whose bottom cannot be seen.
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Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

Far Off and Very Deep

Wisdom Tested at Its Limits · Ecclesiastes 7

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23All this I tested with wisdom. I said, “I will become wise”, but it was far from me.

24What has been is far off and very deep—who can find it out?

25I turned, and my heart with me, to know, search out, and seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness of madness.

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