Psalms 73:16 · KJV
“When I thought to know this, it {was} too painful for me; {too...: Heb. labour in mine eyes}”
— Psalms 73:16
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend {against} the generation of thy children.
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; {then} understood I their end.
Psalms 73 — Context
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. {chastened: Heb. my chastisement was}
15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend {against} the generation of thy children.
16When I thought to know this, it {was} too painful for me; {too...: Heb. labour in mine eyes}
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; {then} understood I their end.
18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because 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}.
Proverbs 30:2-3
Surely I {am} more brutish than {any} man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Psalms 77:19
Thy way {is} in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psalms 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. {a vain...: Heb. an image}
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness {is} like the great mountains; thy judgments {are} a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. {the...: Heb. the mountains of God}
Luke 18:32-34
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
Romans 11:33
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!
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and darkness {are} round about him: righteousness and judgment {are} the habitation of his throne. {habitation: or, establishment}