Numbers 11:15

Verse

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

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.

Bible in Basic English

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

Free Bible Version

If this is the way you're going to treat me, then please just kill me now so I don't have to face how depressed I've become. Please grant me this one request.”

King James (Authorized) Version

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.

One Unity Resource Bible

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found chen ·grace· in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Translation for Translators

If you intend to act like this toward me, kill me now. If you are really concerned about me, be kind to me and kill me to end my misery of trying to take care of them!”

Unlocked Literal Bible

Since you are treating me this way, kill me now—if I find favor in your eyes—do not let me see my misery.”

Noah Webster Bible

And if thou dealest 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.

World English 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.”

Young's Literal Translation

and if thus Thou art doing to me — slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

Context

The Complaint of Moses

¹⁴I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.¹⁵If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

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Summary

In this verse, Moses expresses his frustration and burden to God, feeling overwhelmed by the responsibility of leading the Israelites. He questions God's plan and asks why he must bear the weight of the people's complaints and needs alone. Moses' honesty and vulnerability before God serve as a reminder that even great leaders face moments of weakness and doubt. This passage highlights the importance of bringing our concerns and struggles to God in prayer, knowing that He understands our limitations and offers comfort and strength in times of need.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

And if thou deal thus with me,.... Let the whole weight of government lie upon me, and leave the alone to bear it: kill me, I pray thee, out of hand; take me out of the world at once, or "kill me now, in killing" (n); dispatch me immediately, and make a thorough end of me directly: if I have found favour in thy sight; if thou hast any love for me, or art willing to show me a kindness, to remove me by death, I shall take as one: and let me not see my wretchedness; or live to be the unhappy man I shall be; pressed with such a weight of government, affected and afflicted with the wants of a people I cannot relieve, or seeing them bore down with judgments and punishments inflicted on them for their sins and transgressions I am not able to prevail upon them to abstain from: so the Targum of Jerusalem,"that I may not see their evil, who are thy people;''so Abendana, and in the margin of some Hebrew copies, it is read,"this is one of the eighteen words, the correction of the scribes;''who, instead of "my wretchedness" or evil, corrected it, "their wretchedness" or evil; but Aben Ezra says there is no need of this correction. (n) "occide me nunc occidendo", Drusius; "occide me jam, occide", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.