Genesis 44:34 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁴ For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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)

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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

³⁴ 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 therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, “Make every one go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

2 Chronicles 34:28

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’ ” And they brought back word to the king.

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Job 31:29

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 119:143

Trouble and anguish have come upon me, but thy commandments are my delight.

Exodus 18:8

Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.