Numbers 11:15
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.”
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In Context
14I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jonah 4:8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Philippians 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Messiah will be magnified in my body, whether 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 →