Psalm 73:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord.

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

Psalm 77:19

Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness are round about 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 striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out; even though a wise man claims to know, he 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!