Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1:12 in other translations
| BSB | But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? |
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| WEB | How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? |
| ASV | How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? |
| YLT | ‘How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife? |
| DARBY | How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife? |
| BBE | How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments? |
| Webster | How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? |
What does Deuteronomy 1:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:9-18
9-18. I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone--a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation as the representatives of their fathers, in whose sight and hearing all the transactions he recounts took place. A reference is here made to the suggestion of Jethro (Ex 18:18). In noticing his practical adoption of a plan by which the administration of…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:9-18
Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see…
Deuteronomy 1:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:12
- 2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- Numbers 11:11-15
And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. …
- 2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
- Psalms 89:19
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
- Deuteronomy 1:9
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
- 1 Kings 3:7-9
And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- Exodus 18:13-16
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 1:11
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
- Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy 1:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Cómo llevaré yo solo vuestras molestias, vuestras cargas, y vuestros pleitos? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comment porterais-je, moi seul, votre charge, et votre fardeau, et vos contestations? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie könnte ich allein eure Bürde und eure Last und euren Hader tragen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non valeo solus negotia vestra sustinere, et pondus ac jurgia. |