Psalms 73:16
Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
In Context
15You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.
17You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.
Cross References
Psalms 36:6And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.
Psalms 77:19And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert?
Proverbs 30:2“I am the most foolish among men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
Ecclesiastes 8:17And I understood that man is able to find no explanation for all those works of God which are done under the sun. And so, the more that he labors to seek, so much the less does he find. Yes, even if a wise man were to claim that he knows, he would not be able to discover it.
John 16:18And they said: “What is this, that he is saying, ‘A little while?’ We do not understand what he is saying.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:16-21
The End of the Wicked. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →