Numbers 11:15 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁵ “And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And if this is the way You deal with me, kill me, I pray You, at once, and be granting me a favor and let me not see my wretchedness [in the failure of all my efforts].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ If you’re going to treat me like this, please kill me. If I’ve found favor in your eyes, then don’t let me endure this wretched situation.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils."

Numbers 11:15 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 7:15

so that my being chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Exodus 32:32

“And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?

Jeremiah 20:18

Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

Jonah 4:3

“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Zephaniah 3:15

יהוה  has turned aside your judgments. He has faced your enemy. The Sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

James 1:4

And let endurance have a perfect work, so that you be perfect and complete, lacking in naught.