I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Numbers 11:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Moshe said to the LORD, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You dealt ill with Your servants? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people on me? American Standard Version (1901) And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Common English Bible Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? And why haven’t I found favor in your eyes, for you have placed the burden of all these people on me? Catholic Public Domain Version And so he said to the Lord: "Why have you afflicted your servant? Why do I not find favor before you? And why have you imposed the weight of this entire people upon me? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me? |
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Moshe cried to the LORD, saying, *What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.*
Moshe returned to the LORD, and said, *Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
Moshe heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moshe was displeased.
If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?