How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou {so} evil entreated this people? why {is} it {that} thou hast sent me?

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet} every one of them doth curse me.

Ye have said, It {is} vain to serve God: and what profit {is it} that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? {ordinance: Heb. observation} {mournfully: Heb. in black}

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? {complain: or, murmur}

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, {which} refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, {and as} waters {that} fail? {fail: Heb. be not sure?}

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.

Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. {was deceived: or, was enticed}

Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

{It is of} the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, {tarry: for} I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou {so} evil entreated this people? why {is} it {that} thou hast sent me?

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. {was deceived: or, was enticed}

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? {complain: or, murmur}

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. {in bitterness: Heb. bitter} {heat: Heb. hot anger}

I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples {unto them}, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? {the LORD: Heb. the face of the LORD}