Numbers 11:15
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Job 7:15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
Jeremiah 20:18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?
Jonah 4:8And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.
Philippians 1:20According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded, but with all confidence, as always, so now also shall Christ be magnified in my body, wither it be by life, or by death.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →