Numbers 11:15 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

KJV

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Is this the meekest of all the men on the earth? The best have their infirmities, and fail sometimes in the exercise of that grace for which they are most eminent.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
כָּ֣כָה׀	Ka.khah	thus	H3602 →
אַתְּ־	'at-	you	H859 →
עֹ֣שֶׂה	'O.seh	[are] doing	H6213 →
לִּ֗י	Li	to <the> me
הָרְגֵ֤נִי	ha.re.Ge.ni	kill me	H2026 →
נָא֙	na'	please	H4994 →
הָרֹ֔ג	ha.Rog	completely <to kill>	H2026 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
מָצָ֥אתִי	ma.Tza.ti	I have found	H4672 →
חֵ֖ן	chen	favor	H2580 →
בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ	be.'ei.Nei.kha	in view your	H5869 →
וְאַל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
אֶרְאֶ֖ה	'er.'Eh	I look	H7200 →
בְּרָעָתִֽי׃ פ	be.ra.'a.Ti	on distress my	H7451 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
leads to
- Jonah 4:8
  As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jonah 4:3
  And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Through
Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 20:14–18
  Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 19:4
  while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
  A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Numbers 20:3
  The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
Through
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
leads to
- Job 3:20
  Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- 1 Peter 4:14–16
  If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.