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Deuteronomy 1:12
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
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Hebrew Names Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Lexham English Bible
How can I bear you by myself, your burden and your load and your strife?
How can I bear you by myself, your burden and your load and your strife?
English Standard Version
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
New Century Version
But I cannot take care of your problems, your troubles, and your arguments by myself.
But I cannot take care of your problems, your troubles, and your arguments by myself.
New English Translation
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
Amplified Bible
'How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
'How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
New American Standard Bible
'How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?
'How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?
Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?
Legacy Standard Bible
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
Contemporary English Version
But I cannot take care of all your problems and settle all your arguments alone.
But I cannot take care of all your problems and settle all your arguments alone.
Complete Jewish Bible
(ii) But you are burdensome, bothersome and quarrelsome! How can I bear it by myself alone?
(ii) But you are burdensome, bothersome and quarrelsome! How can I bear it by myself alone?
Darby Translation
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
Easy-to-Read Version
But I cannot take care of you and solve all your arguments by myself.
But I cannot take care of you and solve all your arguments by myself.
George Lamsa Translation
How can I myself bear alone your encumbrance and your burden and your strife?
How can I myself bear alone your encumbrance and your burden and your strife?
Good News Translation
But how can I alone bear the heavy responsibility for settling your disputes?
But how can I alone bear the heavy responsibility for settling your disputes?
Christian Standard Bible®
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?
Literal Translation
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden, and your strife?
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden, and your strife?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How can I alone beare soche cobraunce, & charge, & stryfe amoge you?
How can I alone beare soche cobraunce, & charge, & stryfe amoge you?
American Standard Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe can I my selfe alone, beare your cumbraunce, your charge, & your stryfe that is among you?
Howe can I my selfe alone, beare your cumbraunce, your charge, & your stryfe that is among you?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
King James Version (1611)
How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I my selfe alone beare your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
English Revised Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Berean Standard Bible
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y may not aloone susteyne youre causis, and birthun, and stryues; yyue ye of you men wise `in dyuyn thingis,
Y may not aloone susteyne youre causis, and birthun, and stryues; yyue ye of you men wise `in dyuyn thingis,
Young's Literal Translation
`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
Update Bible Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Webster's Bible Translation
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
World English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
New King James Version
How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
New Living Translation
But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?
But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?
New Life Bible
How can I alone carry the weight of your troubles?
How can I alone carry the weight of your troubles?
New Revised Standard
But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?
But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
Douay-Rheims Bible
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
Revised Standard Version
How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?
How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
Contextual Overview
9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself; 10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number. 11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said! 12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments? 13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say. 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes. 16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him. 17 In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing. 18 And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 1:9, Exodus 18:13-16, Numbers 11:11-15, 1 Kings 3:7-9, Psalms 89:19, 2 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Corinthians 3:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:17 - not good 1 Kings 11:28 - charge Galatians 6:2 - Bear
Cross-References
Genesis 1:10
And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
Mark 4:28
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
Luke 6:44
For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.
For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.
2 Corinthians 9:10
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?] His meaning is, that he could not hear and try all their causes, and determine all their law suits, and decide the strifes and controversies which arose between them; it was too heavy for him, and brought too much trouble and incumbrance upon him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This appointment of the “captains” (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only.
A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the people took place before they left Horeb to march direct to the promised land. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years’ delay rested only with themselves!
