Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Genesis 44:34 - English Standard Version 2016 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
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 disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.
For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
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.