When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
Parallel translations
- KJV When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
- BSB When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
- NKJV When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me—
- NASB When I thought of understanding this, It was troublesome in my sight
- NLT So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper. But what a difficult task it is!
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Cross-references · 9
- Eccl 8:17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
- Luke 18:32–34For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
- Ps 77:19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- John 16:18–19They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”
- Prov 30:2–3“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
- Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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