Genesis 44:34 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For how can I go up to my father if the lad is not with me?–lest I witness the woe and the evil that will come upon my father.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

How can I go back to my father without the young man? I couldn’t bear to see how badly my father would be hurt.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 44:34 Cross References

Genesis 44:33

Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,  so he called out, ‘Send everyone away from me! ’ No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

2 Chronicles 34:28

“I will indeed gather you to your ancestors, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ Then they reported to the king.

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?  How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ’

Job 31:29

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress, or become excited when trouble came his way?

Exodus 18:8

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 that confronted them on the way, and how the Lord rescued them.