'Difficult' in the Bible
Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you {in the spring} and Sarah [shall have] a son."
And {when her labor was the most difficult} the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid {for you have another son}."
Surely you will wear out, both you and this people who [are] with you, because the thing [is too] {difficult} for you. You are not able to do it alone.
And they judged the people all the time; the difficult issues they would bring to Moses, and every minor issue they would judge themselves.
You must not {be partial} {in your judgment}; hear [out] the small [person] as [also] the great [person]; {do not be intimidated by any person}, because the judgment [is] God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring [it] to me, and I will hear it [out].'
"{If a matter is too difficult for you}, [for example disputes] between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault [and between] matters of discernment in your {towns}, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;
When the men of Israel saw that [it was] {too difficult} for them, because the army was hard pressed, the people hid themselves in the caves, in the thorn bushes, in the cliffs, in the vaults and in the wells.
And Amnon {was so frustrated that he felt ill} because of Tamar his sister, because she [was] a virgin, and it [was] too difficult in Amnon's eyes to do anything with her.
Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?"
He said, "What you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen."
But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, [if] the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done [it]? [Why not] even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?"
{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
"{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
My heart is not haughty nor my eyes {arrogant}. And I do not {concern myself} with things too great and difficult for me.
'Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. {Nothing} is too difficult for you,
"Look, I [am] Yahweh, [the] God of all flesh; is {anything} too difficult for me?"
For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people {of obscure speech} and {of a difficult language},
[and] not to many nations {of obscure speech} and {a difficult language} {whose words} you do not understand, [for] if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.
And the thing that the king is asking [is too] difficult and {there is no one who} can reveal it to the king except [the] gods {whose dwelling is not with mortals}."
" ' Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I myself know that [the] spirit of [the] holy gods [is] in you, and {no mystery is too difficult} for you. [Now] tell [me] [the] visions of my dream that I saw, and its explanation.
And Jesus looked around [and] said to his disciples, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"
And the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered [and] said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God!
And Jesus took notice of him [and] said, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!
For [this is] not that for others [there may be] relief, [and] for you difficult circumstances, but [as a matter] of equality.
But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,
Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
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- Arduous (1 instance)
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