Psalm 73:16 {72:16}
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I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

Judges 6:2
And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made themselves dens and caves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.

Ecclesiastes 8:17
And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

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I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

when

Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Psalm 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Proverbs 30:2,3 I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me. . . .

Ecclesiastes 8:17 And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

too painful for me.

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Luke 18:32-34 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon. . . .

John 16:18,19 They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he speaketh. . . .

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children. 16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.…
Lexicon
When I tried
וָֽ֭אֲחַשְּׁבָה (wā·’ă·ḥaš·šə·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2803: To think, account

to understand
לָדַ֣עַת (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

all this,
זֹ֑את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

it
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was troublesome
עָמָ֖ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

in my sight
בְעֵינָֽי׃ (ḇə·‘ê·nāy)
Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain


Additional Translations
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sightWhen I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

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

And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

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

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

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

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

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