To bear all this people alone. — In accordance with the advice of Jethro, able men had been chosen out of all Israel who heard and determined the small matters which arose among them (Exodus 18:25-26), but they were of no avail on occasions such as the present.
My wretchedness. — Or, my evil. This is one of the eighteen places in which the scribes are said to have altered the text, and to have substituted my for Thy.