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Douay-Rheims Bible
Deuteronomy 1:12
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
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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?
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?
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?
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?
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 And I said to you at that time: 10 I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude. 11 (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.) 12 I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences. 13 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers. 14 Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do. 15 And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things. 16 And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger. 17 There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man’s person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you all things that 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 called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:24
And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.
Mark 4:28
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.
Luke 6:44
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
2 Corinthians 9:10
And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:
And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived: God is not mocked.
Be not deceived: God is not mocked.
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!
