Psalms 73:16New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— When I reasoned, that I might understand this, A vexation, it was in mine eyes:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— When I thought to know this, it [was] too painfull for me,
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And I undertook to understand this, [but] it is too hard for me,
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me; |
When I thought
2803 {2803} Primeחָשַׁבchashab{khaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
to know
3045 {3045} Primeידעyada`{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8800 <8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 4888
this,
x2063 (2063) Complementזֹאתzo'th{zothe'}
Irregular feminine of H2089; this (often used adverbially).
it
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he ( she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
[ was] too painful
5999 {5999} Primeעָמָל`amal{aw-mawl'}
From H5998; toil, that is, wearing effort; hence worry, whether of body or mind.
for
x5869 (5869) Complementעַיִן`ayin{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).
me;
y5869 [5869] Standardעַיִן`ayin{ah'-yin}
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape). |
Psalms 73:16-17
_ _ Still he —
_ _ thought — literally, “studied,” or, “pondered this riddle”; but in vain; it remained a toil (compare Margin), till he — |
Psalms 73:16
To know — To find out the reason of this providence. |
- When:
Psalms 36:6 Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms 77:19 Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psalms 97:2 Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
Proverbs 30:2-3 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man. ... I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
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].
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!
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- too painful for me:
- Heb. labour in mine eyes,
Psalms 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Luke 18:32-34 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: ... And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
John 16:18-19 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. ... Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
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