Deuteronomy 1:12

JPS Old Testament

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
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?

Lexham English Bible
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?

New Century Version
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?

Amplified Bible
'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?

Geneva Bible (1587)
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?

Contemporary English Version
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?

Darby Translation
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.

George Lamsa Translation
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?

Christian Standard Bible®
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?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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?

Bible in Basic English
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe can I my selfe alone, beare your cumbraunce, your charge, & your stryfe that is among you?

King James Version (1611)
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?

English Revised Version
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?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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?

Update Bible Version
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?

World English Bible
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?

New Living Translation
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?

New Revised Standard
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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

Contextual Overview

⁹ And I spoke unto you at that time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone; ¹⁰ the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.-- ¹¹ The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you!-- ¹² How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? ¹³ Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you.' ¹⁴ And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.' ¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe. ¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. ¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.' ¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

Bible Verse Review
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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 called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11
And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.

Genesis 1:24
And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.

Genesis 1:26
And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her growth, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause victory and glory to spring forth before all the nations.

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!