Psalms 73:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

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  • Eccl 8:17 : 17 Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.
  • Luke 18:32-34 : 32 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and on the third day he shall rise again. 34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.
  • John 16:18-19 : 18 They said therefore, 'What is this that he says, A little while? We do not understand what he is saying.' 19 Now Jesus knew they wanted to ask him and said to them, 'Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me?'
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known.
  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
  • Prov 30:2-3 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy One.

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  • Ps 73:17
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    17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.

  • Ps 73:21-22
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    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

    22So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

  • Ps 139:6
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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Job 42:3
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    3Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  • Eccl 7:23-25
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    75%

    23All this have I tested by wisdom. I said, 'I will be wise,' but it was far from me.

    24That which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

    25I applied my heart to know, to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even foolishness and madness.

  • Eccl 1:16-18
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    16I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after wind.

    18For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Ps 73:2-3
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    74%

    2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

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

  • Ps 38:17
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    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 23:3
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    3Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

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    2I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

    3My heart burned within me, while I was musing, the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue,

    4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; so I may know how frail I am.

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

  • Ps 55:4
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    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Job 23:15-16
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    15Therefore I am troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.

    16For God makes my heart faint, and the Almighty troubles me.

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    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

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    32That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

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    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

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    11And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

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

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    20Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

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

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    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

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