John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 1:12

"How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?" — Deuteronomy 1:12 (ASV)

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife ?
] His meaning is, that he could not hear and try all their causes, and determine all their law suits, and decide the strifes and controversies which arose between them; it was too heavy for him, and brought too much trouble and incumbrance upon him.