Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?
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?
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 - The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath promised you - 12 'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you? 13 Bring therefore men of wisdom and of understanding and expert, known among your tribes, that I may make them rulers over you.'
Cross References
Exodus 18:13-16
And it chanced on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning unto evening.
Numbers 11:11-15
And Moses said unto the LORD, "Wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour in thy sight, seeing that thou puttest the weight of this people upon me?
Deuteronomy 1:9
And I said unto you the same season, 'I am not able to bear you myself alone.
1 Kings 3:7-9
And now LORD, my God, it is thou that hast made thy servant king instead of David my father. And I am a young lad and know not how to order myself.
Psalm 89:19
Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one part are we the savor of death unto death; and unto the other part are we the savor of life unto life. And who is mete unto these things?
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as it were of ourselves; but our ableness cometh of God;