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."


In Context

31 sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

32 Your servant guaranteed the boy's safety to my father. I said, 'If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!'

33 "Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

34 How 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."

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 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 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.