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Num 11:11 — And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Wherefore hast thou		The complaint and remonstrance of Moses in these verses serve at once to shew the deeply distressed state of his mind, and the degradation of the minds of the people. Num 11:15; Exd 17:4; Deu 1:12; Jer 15:10,18; Jer 20:7-9,14-18; Mal 3:14; 2Cr 11:28
wherefore have		Job 10:2; Psa 130:3; Psa 143:2; Lam 3:22,23,39,40

Correlating Passages

Wherefore hast thou

	Num 11:15	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.
	Exd 17:4	And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
	Deu 1:12	How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
	Jer 15:10	Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
	Jer 15:18	Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
	Jer 20:7	O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
	Jer 20:8	For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
	Jer 20:9	Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not [stay].
	Jer 20:14	Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
	Jer 20:15	Cursed [be] the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
	Jer 20:16	And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
	Jer 20:17	Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
	Jer 20:18	Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
	Mal 3:14	Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
	2Cr 11:28	Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

wherefore have

	Job 10:2	I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
	Psa 130:3	If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
	Psa 143:2	And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
	Lam 3:22	[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
	Lam 3:23	[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
	Lam 3:39	Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
	Lam 3:40	Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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Scott, Thomas. "Numbers 11:11," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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