Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 7:23
A church father on this verse
“Now the subject of God is harder to come at, in proportion as it is more perfect than any other, and is open to more objections, and the solutions of them are more laborious. For every objection, however small, stops and hinders the course of our argument and cuts off its further advance, just like people who suddenly…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23All these things have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
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21Also take no heed To all the words which ungodly men shall speak; Lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee.
22For many times he shall trespass against thee, And repeatedly shall he afflict thy heart; For thus also hast thou cursed others.
— Ecclesiastes 7:23 —
24That which is far beyond what was, And a great depth, who shall find it out?
25I and my heart went round about to know, And to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, And to know the folly and trouble And madness of the ungodly man.