Verse 16

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

Referenced Verses

• Eccl 8:17 : 17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: bause though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
• Luke 18:32-34 : 32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. 34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
• John 16:18-19 : 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O 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 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Ps 77:19 : 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footste are not known.
• Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
• Prov 30:2-3 : 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.