Deuteronomy 1:12 “But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?”

Deuteronomy 1:12

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?

Darby Translation

How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?

Young's Literal Translation

'How do I bear by myself your pressure, 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?

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Cross references

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

2 Corinthians 3:5 Deuteronomy 1:9 Numbers 11:11–15 1 Kings 3:7–9 Psalm 89:19 2 Corinthians 2:16

2 Corinthians 3:5 · BSB

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Deuteronomy 1:9 · BSB

At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

Numbers 11:11–15 · BSB

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

1 Kings 3:7–9 · BSB

And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.

Psalm 89:19 · BSB

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

2 Corinthians 2:16 · BSB

To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

13Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”

Read Deuteronomy 1