Genesis 44:34 - Tree of Life Version

For how can I go up to my father and the boy is not with me? Else I must see the evil that would come upon 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 44:33

So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave in the boy’s place, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1

Now Joseph could no longer restrain himself in front of all those who were standing by him, so he cried out, “Get everyone away from me!” So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

2 Chronicles 34:28

‘Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you will be buried in your grave in shalom. Your eyes will not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants.’” So they brought her word back to the king.

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure seeing the disaster that will fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Job 31:29

“If I rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated because calamity found him—

Psalm 116:3

The ropes of death entangled me, and the torments of Sheol found me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 119:143

Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your mitzvot are my delight.

Exodus 18:8

Moses told his father-in-law all that Adonai had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, as well as all the travail that had come upon them along the way, and how Adonai delivered them.