Deuteronomy 1:12

New Revised Standard

But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?

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?

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 At that time I said to you, "I am unable by myself to bear you. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven. ¹¹ May the Lord , the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you! ¹² But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself? ¹³ Choose for each of your tribes individuals who are wise, discerning, and reputable to be your leaders." ¹⁴ You answered me, "The plan you have proposed is a good one." ¹⁵ So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and reputable individuals, and installed them as leaders over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officials, throughout your tribes. ¹⁶ I charged your judges at that time: "Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien. ¹⁷ You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it." ¹⁸ So I charged you at that time with all the things that you should 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
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it." And it was so.

Genesis 1:24
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so.

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Mark 4:28
The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Luke 6:44
for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

2 Corinthians 9:10
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.

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!