Psalm 73:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 judgements are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Psalm 39:6

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.

Psalm 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and judgement are the foundation of his throne.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

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

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past tracing out!