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


In Context

31 And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

32 Let me be tht proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

33 Therefore I thy servant will stay instead of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.

34 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 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:34for 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.

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.