Psalms 73:16 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 73:16

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

KJV

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ASV

When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

WEB

When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

YLT

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

DBT

When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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14 verses on the floor

Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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.
Acts 8:31
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Proverbs 30:2–3
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

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): "I endeavoured to understand the meaning of this unaccountable dispensation of Providence; but it was too painful for me. I could not conquer it by the strength of my own reasoning." It is a problem, not to be solved by the mere light of nature, for, if there were not another life after this, we could not fully reconcile the prosperity of the wicked with the justice of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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