PSA 73:16 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Σή ἐστιν ἡ ἡμέρα, καὶ σή ἐστιν ἡ νὺξ, σὺ κατηρτίσω ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην.
(Saʸ estin haʸ haʸmera, kai saʸ estin haʸ nux, su kataʸrtisō haʸlion kai selaʸnaʸn. )

BrTr The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.

ULT Though I tried to understand these things,
⇔ it was too difficult for me.

UST When I tried to think completely about these things,
⇔ it was too hard for me to understand them.

OEB ⇔ So I sought to understand it,
⇔ but a wearisome task it seemed:

WEBBE When I tried to understand this,
⇔ it was too painful for me—

WMBB (Same as above)

NET When I tried to make sense of this,
⇔ it was troubling to me.

LSV And I think to know this,
It [is] perverseness in my eyes,

FBV So I thought about it and tried to understand,[fn] but it looked like a lot of hard work to me—

73:16 The psalmist is trying to understand why the wicked prosper.

T4T And when I tried to think about all this,
⇔ it was very difficult for me to understand it.

LEB • how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes

BBE When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

Moff So I thought of it, thinking to fathom it;
⇔ but sorely it troubled me,

JPS And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;

ASV When I thought how I might know this,
⇔ It was too painful for me;

DRA Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

YLT And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,

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

RV When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me;

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

KJB-1769 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;[fn]

73.16 too…: Heb. labour in mine eyes

KJB-1611 [fn]When I thought to know this, it was too painfull for me,

73:16 Heb. it was labour in mine eies.

Bshps Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes.
(Therefore I considered how I might understand this: but it was to painfull in mine eyes.)

Gnva Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

Cvdl Then thought I to vnderstonde this, but it was to harde for me.
(Then thought I to understood this, but it was to hard for me.)

Wycl The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.
(The day is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou/you madist the moreutid and the sunne.)

Luth Ich gedacht ihm nach, daß ich‘s begreifen möchte; aber es war mir zu schwer
(I gedacht him after, that ich‘s begreifen möchte; but it what/which to_me to schwer)

ClVg Tuus est dies, et tua est nox; tu fabricatus es auroram et solem.
(Tuus it_is days, and your it_is nox; you fabricatus you_are with_goldram and solem. )

Parallel PSA 73:16