Psalms 73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 73 connects to 10 cross-references. An Asaph wisdom psalm wrestling with the prosperity of the wicked: the psalmist nearly stumbled when he saw the arrogant without trouble and fat with food. Only when he entered the sanctuary of God did he understand their end. The …
Other Translations
When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;
And I think to know this, Perverseness it <FI>is<Fi> in mine eyes,
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
Cross References
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth …
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under …
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which …
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.