Deuteronomy 1:12

The NET Bible®

But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
How can I alone bear the load 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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe can I my selfe alone, beare your cumbraunce, your charge, & your stryfe that is among you?

Easy-to-Read Version
But I cannot take care of you and solve all your arguments by myself.

Revised Standard Version
How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?

World English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, 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?

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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?

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?

Update Bible Version
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?

New King James Version
How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?

Contemporary English Version
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?

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe can I alone beare your combrance and your charge, and your strife?

George Lamsa Translation
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?

Amplified Bible
'How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?

Hebrew Names Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

New Living Translation
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?

New Revised Standard
But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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?

Berean Standard Bible
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and 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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

Lexham English Bible
How can I bear you by myself, your burden and your load and your strife?

Literal Translation
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden, and your strife?

English Standard Version
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?

New American Standard Bible
'How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?

New Century Version
But I cannot take care of your problems, your troubles, and your arguments by myself.

Christian Standard Bible®
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes 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,

Young's Literal Translation
`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

Contextual Overview

⁹ I also said to you at that time, "I am no longer able to sustain you by myself. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ¹¹ Indeed, may the Lord , the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would! ¹² But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife? ¹³ Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders." ¹⁴ You replied to me that what I had said to you was good. ¹⁵ So I chose as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials. ¹⁶ I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner. ¹⁷ They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing. ¹⁸ So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should 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
God called the dry ground "land" and the gathered waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.

Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

Isaiah 61:11
For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

Mark 4:28
By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Luke 6:44
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

2 Corinthians 9:10
Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

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!