12 But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
12 How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
12 But how can I carry, all by myself, your troubles and burdens and quarrels?
12 How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
12 But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:12
Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:9-18
(Read Deuteronomy 1:9-18)
Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see to the execution of them, which showed God's goodness to them, and the care of Moses.