Genesis 44:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

Genesis 44:33

Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy go back with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

2 Chronicles 34:28

I will gather you to your ancestors and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.’ ” They took the message back to the king.

Esther 8:6

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

Job 31:29

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me or exulted when evil overtook them—

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 your 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 found them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.