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Psalms 73:16

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

KJV

Tuus est dies, et tua est nox ; tu fabricatus es auroram et solem.

Vulgate

σή ἐστιν ἡ ἡμέρα, καὶ σή ἐστιν ἡ νύξ· σὺ κατηρτίσω ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην.

LXX

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

ASV

וָֽ֭/אֲחַשְּׁבָ/ה לָ/דַ֣עַת זֹ֑את עָמָ֖ל היא ה֣וּא בְ/עֵינָֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
וֹ
v
noun · 55×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
חָשַׁ֖ב
chshb
verb · 123×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 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.
  • Eccl 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 farther; though a wise man
  • Eccl 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 farther; though a wise man
  • Hab 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.
  • Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?