Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible
For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”
International Standard Version
After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
How can I go up to my father if the young man is not with me—for fear that I would see the tragedy that would overtake my [elderly] father [if Benjamin does not return]?”
Bible in Basic English
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
Julia Smith Translation
For how shall I go up to my father and the youth not with me? lest I shall look upon the evil which shall find my father.
King James 2000
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."
Modern King James verseion
For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy is not with me lest perhaps I see the evil that will find my father?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"
NET Bible
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."
New Heart English Bible
For 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 Emphasized Bible
For how can I go up unto my father, should the lad, not be with me? lest I look on the calamity, that shall find out my father,
Webster
For 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.
World English Bible
For 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."
Youngs Literal Translation
for 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.'
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Children » Instances of » Judah
Judah » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt for corn (grain)
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
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.
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Cross References
Esther 8:6
For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Exodus 18:8
And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and how Jehovah had delivered them.
1 Samuel 2:33-34
And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.
2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought the king word again.
Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
Psalm 116:3
The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
Psalm 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.
Jeremiah 52:10-11
And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; and he slaughtered also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.