How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
Parallel translations
- KJV How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- BSB But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
- NKJV How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
- NASB How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?
- NLT But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?
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Cross-references · 7
- 2 Cor 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
- 2 Cor 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
- Num 11:11–15Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
- Deut 1:9I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
- 1 Kgs 3:7–9Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
- Ps 89:19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
- Exod 18:13–16On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
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