Exodus 18:18
Good News Translation
You will wear yourself out and these people as well. This is too much for you to do alone.

New Revised Standard Version
You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

Contemporary English Version
You and the people who come to you will soon be worn out. The job is too much for one person; you can't do it alone.

New American Bible
“You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. The task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.

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Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.

thou wilt surely wear away.

2 Corinthians 12:15 But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.

Philippians 2:30 Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death: delivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was wanting towards my service.

1 Thessalonians 2:8,9 So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us. . . .

thou art

Numbers 11:14-17 I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:9-12 And I said to you at that time: . . .

Acts 6:1-4 And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. . . .

Context
Jethro Advises Moses
17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good. 18Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.19But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:…
Cross References
Exodus 18:17
But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

Numbers 11:14
I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.

Numbers 11:17
That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.

Deuteronomy 1:9
And I said to you at that time:

Deuteronomy 1:12
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

Exodus 18:17
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