Deuteronomy 1:12

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

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

KJV

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

ASV

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, 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?

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אֵיכָה 'ei·khah how H349 אֶשָּׂא 'e·sa' will I bear H5375 לְבַדִּי le·va·di to alone me H905 טָרְחֲכֶם ta·re·cha·khem burden your H2960 וּמַשַּׂאֲכֶם u·ma·sa·'a·khem and burden your H4853 וְרִיבְכֶם ve·ri·ve·khem and dispute[s] your H7379

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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 to the execution of them, which showed God's goodness to them, and the care of Moses.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.