Psalms 73:16
And when I should think to know this, it would be trouble in my eyes;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
In Context
17Until I enter into the sanctuary of God; and understand what their future will be.
Cross References
Psalms 36:6(36:7) Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy acts of justice like the great deep: man and beast dost thou ever help, O Lord.
Psalms 77:19(77:20) Through the sea led thy way, and thy path was through mighty waters, and thy footsteps could not be known.
Proverbs 30:2“Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a common man.
Ecclesiastes 8:17Then did I see [in] the whole work of God, that a man is not able to find out the work that is done under the sun; inasmuch as though a man were to toil to seek for it, he would yet not find it; and even if the wise were to think to know it, he would yet not be able to find it.
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 →