But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O YHWH, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Numbers 11:15 - Y'all Version Bible If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me: and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils. |
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O YHWH, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
So now, YHWH, I beg you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
YHWH has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, YHWH, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Let perseverance have its perfect work so that y’all may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.