Psalm 73:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ Yet, when I tried to understand this, It was labour to my eyes –

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.

Psalm 73:16 Cross References

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your right-rulings are a great deep; O יהוה, You save man and beast.

Psalm 39:6

“As but a shadow each one walks; They busy themselves, only in vain; He heaps up wealth, But knows not who gathers them.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was in the sea, And Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness all around Him, Righteousness and right-ruling are the foundation of His throne.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I saw all the work of Elohim, that man is unable to find out the work that has been done under the sun. For though a man labours to seek, yet he does not find it. And even though a wise one claims to know, he is unable to find it.

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!