How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, and said, *I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: