How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?
Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty [man]. I have exalted a chosen [man] out of the people.
And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.
Thou will surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee, for the thing is too heavy for thee. Thou are not able to perform it thyself alone.
LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.