Genesis 44:34

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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.come…: Heb. find my father

WEB

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.”

ASV

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.

LSV

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.”

YLT

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.'

DBY

for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? — lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

DRC

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

GNV

For how can I go vp to my father, if the childe be not with me, vnlesse I woulde see the euil that shall come on my father?

JPS

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.'

LXXE

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

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WLC

כִּי־אֵיךְ֙ אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה אֶל־אָבִ֔י וְהַנַּ֖עַר אֵינֶ֣נּוּ אִתִּ֑י פֶּ֚ן אֶרְאֶ֣ה בָרָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִמְצָ֖א אֶת־אָבִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Πῶς γὰρ ἀναβήσομαι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, τοῦ παιδίου μὴ ὄντος μεθʼ ἡμῶν; ἵνα μὴ ἴδω τὰ κακὰ, ἃ εὑρήσει τὸν πατέρα μου.

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• Esther 8:6For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
• Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
• Exodus 18:8Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
• 1 Samuel 2:33–34And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men. And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons…
• Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
• Job 31:29If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
• 2 Chronicles 34:28‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her…
• Jeremiah 52:10–11There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to…

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