11And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-15)God, having spoken to Moses, allows him also a liberty of speech, which he here improves; and, I. He objects his own insufficiency for the service he was called to (Exod. 3:11): Who am I ? He thinks himself unworthy of the honour, and not par negotio—equal to the task . He thinks he wants courage, and therefore cannot go to Pharaoh, to make a demand which might cost the demandant his head: he thin…
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