11 Then Moses said to Jehovah: “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, so that you put the burden of all this people on me?+

15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me right now.+ If I have found favor in your eyes, do not make me see any more calamity.”

3 At that he became afraid, so he got up and ran for his life.*+ He came to Beʹer-sheʹba,+ which belongs to Judah,+ and he left his attendant there. 4 He went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree, and he asked that he* might die. He said: “It is enough! Now, O Jehovah, take my life* away,+ for I am no better than my forefathers.”

16 I loathe my life;+ I do not want to go on living.

Leave me alone, for my days are like a breath.+