Psalms 73:16
And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
In Context
15If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
17Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
Cross References
Psalms 36:6Thy righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Thy judgments [are] a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
Psalms 77:19In the sea [is] Thy way, And Thy paths [are] in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.
Proverbs 30:2For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Ecclesiastes 8:17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
John 16:18they said then, 'What is this he saith — the little while? we have not known 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 →