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Psalm 73

Psa. 73:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When I thought
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
to know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
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.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
this, it was δtoo painful
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
for me
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
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labor in mine eyes.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 36:6• 6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. (Psa. 36:6)
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Psa. 77:19• 19Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. (Psa. 77:19)
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Psa. 97:2• 2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. (Psa. 97:2)
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Prov. 30:2‑3• 2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
 3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. (Prov. 30:2‑3)
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Eccl. 8:17• 17Then 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 labor 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. (Eccl. 8:17)
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Rom. 11:33• 33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Rom. 11:33)
too painful for me.
Heb. labour in mine eyes.
Psa. 39:6• 6Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Luke 18:32‑34• 32For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
 33And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
 34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken. (Luke 18:32‑34)
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John 16:18‑19• 18They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
 19Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire 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? (John 16:18‑19)
• To answer these unbelieving questions was a grievous task to the godly man. (“Psalms 73” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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"Labour," "trouble." "hardships," ver. 5.