Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? New Living Translation But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering? English Standard Version How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? Berean Standard Bible But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? King James Bible How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? New King James Version How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? New American Standard Bible How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife? NASB 1995 ‘How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife? NASB 1977 ‘How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife? Legacy Standard Bible How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife? Amplified Bible How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining? Christian Standard Bible But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself? Holman Christian Standard Bible But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself? American Standard Version How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Contemporary English Version But I cannot take care of all your problems and settle all your arguments alone. English Revised Version How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? GOD'S WORD® Translation How can I take care of your problems, your troubles, and your disagreements all by myself? Good News Translation But how can I alone bear the heavy responsibility for settling your disputes? International Standard Version How can I bear the burden of you and your bickering all by myself? Majority Standard Bible But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? 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's Bible Translation How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? World English Bible How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHow do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself? Young's Literal Translation 'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife? Smith's Literal Translation How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleI alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences. Catholic Public Domain Version Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes. New American Bible But how can I, by myself, bear the weight, the contentiousness of you? New Revised Standard Version But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHow can I myself bear alone your encumbrance and your burden and your strife? Peshitta Holy Bible Translated How therefore can I alone carry your baggage and your cargo and your legal cases? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Brenton Septuagint Translation How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Moses Appoints Leaders…11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised. 12But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? 13Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”… Cross References Exodus 18:13-26 The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening. / When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?” / “Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied. ... Numbers 11:11-17 So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people? / Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers? / Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ ... 1 Kings 3:7-9 And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in. / Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number. / Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?” Acts 6:1-7 In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. / So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables. / Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will assign this responsibility to them ... 2 Corinthians 11:28-29 Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. / Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief? 1 Samuel 8:5-6 “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.” / But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 1 Kings 12:4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.” Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. / Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. / For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Galatians 6:2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Numbers 27:16-17 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation / who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.” 1 Timothy 3:1-13 This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task. / An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, / not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money. ... Hebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you. 2 Chronicles 19:5-10 He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah. / Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment. / And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.” ... Romans 15:1 We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Treasury of Scripture How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Deuteronomy 1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: Exodus 18:13-16 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening… Numbers 11:11-15 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? … Jump to Previous Alone Arguments Bear Burden Burdens Disputes Encumbrance Load Possible Pressure Problems Responsible Strife Sustain Troubles Undertake Wear WeightJump to Next Alone Arguments Bear Burden Burdens Disputes Encumbrance Load Possible Pressure Problems Responsible Strife Sustain Troubles Undertake Wear WeightDeuteronomy 1 1. Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year6. briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb 14. of giving them officers 19. of sending the spies to search the land 34. of his anger for their incredulity 41. and disobedience But how can I bear This phrase reflects Moses' expression of the overwhelming responsibility he felt as the leader of the Israelites. The Hebrew root for "bear" is "nasa," which means to lift, carry, or take. This word is often used in the context of carrying a heavy load, both physically and metaphorically. Moses is acknowledging the weight of leadership and the impossibility of managing it alone. This highlights the importance of shared leadership and the need for community support, a principle that resonates throughout the Bible. your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself Deuteronomy 1:13-15 recall very exactly what is said in Exodus 18 Verse 12. - Moses appeals to the good sense of the people themselves: How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Cumbrance: this is a just rendering of the Hebrew word מֹרֲח, from טָרַח, which, though it occurs only in the Hiphil in Hebrew, in the sense of to cast down (Job 17:11), probably was in use also in the Kal, in the sense of to lay upon, to encumber, which is the meaning of the cognate Arabic followed by . Burden (שָּׁא, from נָשָׂא, to lift up, to carry, to bear), something lifted up and carried, a load or burden. Strife: (רִיב) here, not mere contention, but litigation, suit-at-law. Some understand all these three, of troubles and burdens laid upon Moses, by his being called upon to compose differences, and adjust competing claims among the people. But other burdens besides these came upon him as the leader of the nation; and it seems best, therefore, to understand the first two of troubles and burdens generally.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But howאֵיכָ֥ה (’ê·ḵāh) Interjection Strong's 349: How?, how!, where can I bear אֶשָּׂ֖א (’eś·śā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take your troubles, טָרְחֲכֶ֥ם (ṭā·rə·ḥă·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2960: A burden burdens, וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם (ū·maś·śa·’ă·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 4853: A burden, tribute, porterage, an utterance, chiefly a, doom, singing, mental, desire and disputes וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃ (wə·rî·ḇə·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 7379: Strife, dispute all by myself? לְבַדִּ֑י (lə·ḇad·dî) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of Links Deuteronomy 1:12 NIVDeuteronomy 1:12 NLT Deuteronomy 1:12 ESV Deuteronomy 1:12 NASB Deuteronomy 1:12 KJV Deuteronomy 1:12 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 1:12 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 1:12 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 1:12 French Bible Deuteronomy 1:12 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your (Deut. 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