Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

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Bible References

Wherefore hast thou

Numbers 11:15
So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
Exodus 17:4
So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me.”
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.
Jeremiah 20:7
O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived;
You have overcome me and prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
2 Corinthians 11:28
Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

Wherefore have

Job 10:2
“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.
Psalm 130:3
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.
Lamentations 3:22
The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.

General references

Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

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