Numbers 11:15
And if thou wilt thus deal with me, then slay me, I pray thee, at once, if I have found favor in thy eyes: that I may not see my wretchedness.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
14I am not able by myself alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; but if not, blot me out, I pray thee, from thy book which thou hast written.
Job 3:20Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?
Job 7:15So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore was this that I came forth out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should pass away in shame?
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God made ready a hot east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint; and he wished for himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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 →