Genesis 44:34
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
In context
32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
33 Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
34 For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
Genesis 44:34 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
- KJV 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.
- WEB 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.”
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's 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.'
- DBY 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.