34for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.


In Context

31 it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

32 For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days.

33 And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brethren;

34 for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

Genesis 44:34 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:34For 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

44:34How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come upon my father."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

44:34For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

44:34For 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

44:34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:34For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

44:34for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:34For 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.