Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
New American Standard Bible
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
King James Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Holman Bible
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?
International Standard Version
How can I bear the burden of you and your bickering all by myself?
American Standard Version
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Amplified
How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
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?
Darby Translation
How can I myself alone sustain your wear, and your burden, and your strife?
Julia Smith Translation
How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife
King James 2000
How can I myself alone bear your weight, and your burden, and your strife?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How can I bear you {by myself}, your burden and your load and your strife?
Modern King James verseion
How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden and your strife?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?
NET Bible
But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
New Heart English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
The Emphasized Bible
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
Webster
How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
World English Bible
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Youngs Literal Translation
'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » To mount sinai » Judges appointed
Government » Mosaic » Administrative and judicial system
Israel » Organization » Government » Jethro
moses » People complain against moses and aaron
moses » Institutes a system of government
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Instances of » Moses, of the israelites
Strife » Causes of » General examples of
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 1:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Historical Prologue
11 LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he has promised you! 12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
Cross References
Exodus 18:13-16
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning to the evening.
Numbers 11:11-15
And Moses said to LORD, Why have thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou lay the burden of all this people upon me?
Deuteronomy 1:9
And I spoke to 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 have 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.
Psalm 89:19
Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty [man]. I have exalted a chosen [man] out of the people.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,