Numbers 11:15
But if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes,—and let me not see my grief,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
14Unable, am, I, by myself, to carry all this people,—for they are too heavy for me.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32Now, therefore, if thou wilt forgive their sin, …but if not, blot me I pray thee out of thy book, which thou hast written,
Job 3:20Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—
Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore was it—That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint,—and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.
Philippians 1:20According to my eager outlook and hope, that, in nothing, shall I be put to shame, but, with all freedom of speech, as always, now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether through means of life, or of 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 →