John Gill Commentary Exodus 14:11

"And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?" — Exodus 14:11 (ASV)

And they said to Moses
The Targum of Jonathan is,

``the ungodly of that generation said to Moses;'' but it seems rather to be understood of the body of the people in general, and is not to be limited to some particular persons of the worse characters among them:

because there were no graves in Egypt ;
as if there had been none, when there were so many; the Egyptians being more solicitous about their graves than their houses, as Diodorus Siculus reports ^F21 ; thus upbraiding Moses in a sarcastic way for what he had done:

have you taken us away to die in the wilderness ?
that so there might be room and graves enough to bury them in, for nothing but death was before their eyes:

why have you dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt ?
which was very ungrateful and disingenuous.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F21: Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 47.