Psalms 73:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Eccl 3:18 : 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 69:5 : 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
  • Job 18:3 : 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?
  • Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 23Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand.

  • 21¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • Prov 30:2-3
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    75%

    2Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

    3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

  • 5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

  • Ps 73:2-3
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    2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

    3For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • 5My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.

  • Ps 73:16-17
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    16When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;

    17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I their end.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

  • Ps 39:8-10
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    8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

    9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • 8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

  • 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

  • 67¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

  • 15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.

  • 19But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • 3Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

  • 18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

    14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.

  • 6[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

  • 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

  • 20Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • 7I am as a wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge.

  • 22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.

  • 19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

  • 16As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.

  • 3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • 8And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

  • 23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • 24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

  • 7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

  • 13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • 4I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

  • 21These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

  • 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • 10And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

  • 4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 6The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

  • 10He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

  • 23¶ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me.

  • 4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;

  • 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.