Psalm 73:16

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

Cross-references

Psalm 77:19 Parallel

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 Parallel

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.