Deuteronomy 1:12

THE MESSAGE

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?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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?

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

⁹At the time I told you, "I can't do this, can't carry you all by myself. God , your God, has multiplied your numbers. Why, look at you—you rival the stars in the sky! And may God , the God-of-Your-Fathers, keep it up and multiply you another thousand times, bless you just as he promised. But how can I carry, all by myself, your troubles and burdens and quarrels? So select some wise, understanding, and seasoned men from your tribes, and I will commission them as your leaders." ¹⁴ You answered me, "Good! A good solution." ¹⁵ So I went ahead and took the top men of your tribes, wise and seasoned, and made them your leaders—leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, officials adequate for each of your tribes. ¹⁶At the same time I gave orders to your judges: "Listen carefully to complaints and accusations between your fellow Israelites. Judge fairly between each person and his fellow or foreigner. Don't play favorites; treat the little and the big alike; listen carefully to each. Don't be impressed by big names. This is God's judgment you're dealing with. Hard cases you can bring to me; I'll deal with them." ¹⁸ I issued orders to you at that time regarding everything you would have to deal with.

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 1:11
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.

Genesis 1:24
God spoke: "Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind: cattle and reptiles and wild animals—all kinds." And there it was: wild animals of every kind, Cattle of all kinds, every sort of reptile and bug. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."

Galatians 6:7
Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.

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!