"When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;"
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Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
When I tried to understand this, It was too painful for me;
And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,