Psalms 73:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight”
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BSBPD
“When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And I think to know this, Perverseness it <FI>is<Fi> in mine eyes,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 73:16 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
- Proverbs 30:2Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
- Luke 18:32He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
- John 16:18They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
- Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
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