“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”
“And now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
And Yosĕ
“See, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so that your eyes would not see all the evil that I am bringing on this place and its inhabitants.” ’ ” So they brought back word to the sovereign.
“For how could I bear to see the evil coming to my people? Or how could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”
If I have rejoiced when he who hated me was ruined, or lifted myself up when evil found him –
The cords of death were around me, And the pains of the grave came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Distress and anguish have found me; Your commands are my delight.
And Mosheh told his father-in-law all that יהוה had done to Pharaoh and to the Mitsrites for Yisra’ĕ