Numbers 11:15

Discouragement and depression Exhaustion Death and loss Grief

¹³ Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

¹⁴ I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

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.”

¹⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

¹⁷ And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: 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.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.”
ASV: 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.
DARBY: And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.
BLB: And if You treat me like this, kill me, please, right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

ÅB: Vil du gjøre slik mot meg, så drep meg heller med én gang, dersom jeg har funnet nåde for dine øyne, og la meg slippe å se min ulykke!
OTB: Hvis dette er slik du vil behandle meg, vennligst drep meg nå—hvis jeg har funnet nåde i dine øyne—og la meg ikke se min egen undergang.”
B1930: Vil du gjøre således mot mig, så drep mig heller med én gang, dersom jeg har funnet nåde for dine øine, og la mig slippe å se min ulykke!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Philippians 1:20–24
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
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Jonah 4:8–9
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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Zephaniah 3:15
The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
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Exodus 32:32
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
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Job 6:8–10
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
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