Numbers 11:15 “If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if…”

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

World English Bible

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

American Standard Version

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore if thou deale thus with mee, I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, kill me, that I behold not my miserie.

Darby Translation

And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.

Young's Literal Translation

and if thus Thou art doing to me — slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

Bible in Basic English

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

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Cross references

“kill me”

Jonah 4:3 1 Kings 19:4 Philippians 1:20–24 Job 3:20–22 Job 6:8–10 Job 7:15

Jonah 4:3 · BSB

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Kings 19:4 · BSB

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Philippians 1:20–24 · BSB

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Job 3:20–22 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 6:8–10 · BSB

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

Job 7:15 · BSB

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

“let me not”

Jeremiah 20:18 Zephaniah 3:15 Jeremiah 15:18

Jeremiah 20:18 · BSB

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Zephaniah 3:15 · BSB

The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.

Jeremiah 15:18 · BSB

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.

Also

Exodus 32:32

Exodus 32:32 · BSB

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

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

In context

14I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

16Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

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