Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies?
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?
A Conservative Version
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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?
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 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, be adding unto you the like of you, a thousand times, - and bless you, as he hath spoken unto you! 12 How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies? 13 Set forth for you - men wise and discerning, and known to your tribes, - that I may appoint them to be heads over you.
Cross References
Exodus 18:13-16
Now it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat, to judge the people, - and the people stood by Moses, from the morning, until the evening.
Numbers 11:11-15
And Moses said unto Yahweh - Wherefore hast thou let thy servant come to grief, and wherefore have I not found favour in thine eyes, - that thou shouldest lay the burden of all this people upon me.
Deuteronomy 1:9
So spake unto you, at that time saying, I am unable, by myself, to carry you.
1 Kings 3:7-9
Now, therefore, O Yahweh my God, thou, hast made thy servant king, instead of David my father, - and, I, am but a little child, I know not how to go out and come in.
Psalm 89:19
Then spakest thou in vision of thy men of lovingkindness, and saidst - I have laid help upon a mighty one, I have exalted one chosen from among the people;
2 Corinthians 2:16
In these, indeed, a fragrance out of death into death, but, in those, a fragrance out of life into life. And, for these things, who is sufficient?
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that, of our own selves, sufficient, are we, to reckon anything as of ourselves, but, our sufficiency, is of God; -