American Standard Version
"How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? "
— Deuteronomy 1:12, American Standard Version
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
“How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
“But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?”
“I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.”
“How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?”
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.