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Psalms 73:16
Psalms 73:16 is verse 16 of Psalms chapter 73, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
King James Version
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
World English Bible
When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
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Psalms 73:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
16 When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
17 until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
Proverbs 30:2Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
Proverbs 30:3I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
Ecclesiastes 8:17I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Luke 18:32He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.
Luke 18:33They will flog Him and kill Him, and on the third day He will rise again.”
Luke 18:34But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
John 16:18They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
John 16:19Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?