Psalm 73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Cross-references
Psalm 77:19 describes God's ways as unknowable — directly parallel to the psalmist's painful struggle to understand.
Ecclesiastes 8:17 explicitly states that man cannot find out God's work — directly reinforcing the psalmist's painful realization.
Romans 11:33 declares God's judgments unsearchable and ways past finding out — the same truth that caused the psalmist pain.
Job 24:1 voices the same complaint about God's apparent inaction against the wicked — the very problem troubling the psalmist.
Proverbs 30:2 expresses a confession of ignorance — Agur's lack of understanding mirrors the psalmist's painful inability to comprehend.
Proverbs 30:3 continues Agur's admission of not knowing the Holy One — parallel to the psalmist's struggle.