King James Version
Psalms 73:16 in the King James Version says “When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; too: Heb. labour in mine eyes” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 73 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; too: Heb. labour in mine eyes”
Psalms 73:16 · KJV
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. chastened: Heb. my chastisement was
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; too: Heb. labour in mine eyes
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“When I thought”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
“to know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“this it was too painful”
H5999toil, i.e., wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“for me”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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