Genesis 44:34
New International Version
How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

New Living Translation
For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”

English Standard Version
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

Berean Standard Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

King James Bible
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

New King James Version
For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would come upon my father?”

New American Standard Bible
For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear that I may see the evil that would overtake my father.”

NASB 1995
“For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me— for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?”

NASB 1977
“For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest I see the evil that would overtake my father?”

Legacy Standard Bible
For how shall I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would overtake my father?”

Amplified Bible
How can I go up to my father if the young man is not with me—for fear that I would see the tragedy that would overtake my [elderly] father [if Benjamin does not return]?”

Christian Standard Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

American Standard Version
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For how shall I go up to my father and the boy not be with me, lest I shall see the evil that will happen to my father?”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For how shall I go up to my father, the lad not being with us? lest I behold the evils which will befall my father.

Contemporary English Version
How can I face my father if Benjamin isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father in such sorrow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

English Revised Version
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How could I go back to my father if the boy isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's misery!"

Good News Translation
How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."

International Standard Version
After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."

JPS Tanakh 1917
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'

Literal Standard Version
for how do I go up to my father, and the youth not with me? Lest I look on the evil which finds my father.”

Majority Standard Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

New American Bible
How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”

NET Bible
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."

New Revised Standard Version
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”

New Heart English Bible
For how will I go up to my father if the boy isn�t with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father."

Webster's Bible Translation
For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.

World English Bible
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

Young's Literal Translation
for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
33Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers. 34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Cross References
Genesis 44:33
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord's slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Send everyone away from me!" So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.


Treasury of Scripture

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

lest.

1 Samuel 2:33,34
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age…

2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

come on.

Exodus 18:8
And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

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1. Joseph's policy to stay his brothers.
6. The silver cup is found in Benjamin's sack.
14. They are brought before Joseph.
18. Judah's humble supplication to Joseph.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

how
אֵיךְ֙ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

can I go back
אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה (’e·‘ĕ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

my father
אָבִ֔י (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

without
אֵינֶ֣נּוּ (’ê·nen·nū)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

the boy?
וְהַנַּ֖עַר (wə·han·na·‘ar)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

I could not bear
פֶּ֚ן (pen)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

to see
אֶרְאֶ֣ה (’er·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the misery
בָרָ֔ע (ḇā·rā‘)
Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

would overwhelm
יִמְצָ֖א (yim·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

[him].”
אָבִֽי׃ (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father


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