Good News Translationand he said to the LORD, "Why have you treated me so badly? Why are you displeased with me? Why have you given me the responsibility for all these people?
New Revised Standard Version
So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Contemporary English Version
He prayed: I am your servant, LORD, so why are you doing this to me? What have I done to deserve this? You've made me responsible for all these people,
New American Bible
“Why do you treat your servant so badly?” Moses asked the LORD. “Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me?
wherefore hast thou.
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.
Exodus 17:4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.
Deuteronomy 1:12 I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
Jeremiah 15:10,18 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. . . .
Jeremiah 20:7-9,14-18 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me. . . .
Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
2 Corinthians 11:28 Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.
wherefore have
Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?
Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.
Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Lamentations 3:22,23,39,40 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. . . .
