Psalm 73:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ When I thought to know this, It was too painful for me;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But when I considered how to understand this, it was too great an effort for me and too painful

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But when I tried to understand these things, it just seemed like hard work

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Psalm 73:16 Cross References

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, yet your footprints were unseen.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!