Psalms 73:16
When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me;
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
In Context
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.
Cross References
Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms 77:19Thy way was in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.
Proverbs 30:2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man:
Ecclesiastes 8:17then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
John 16:18They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.
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 →