Psalms 73:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Psalms 73:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
John 16:18-19
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. …
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 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-17. Still he-- thought--literally, “studied,” or, “pondered this riddle”; but in vain; it remained a toil (compare Margin), till he--