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16When I thought{H8762)} to know{H8800)} this, it was too painful for me;
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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.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. …
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!
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)We have seen what a strong temptation the psalmist was in to envy prospering profaneness; now here we are told how he kept his footing and got the victory. I. He kept up a respect for God’s people, and with that he restrained himself from speaking what he had thought amiss, Ps. 73:15. He got the victory by degrees, and this was the first point he gained; he was ready to say, Verily, I have cleanse…
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