Genesis 44:34
World English Bible (WEB)
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.”
In context
32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’
33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
34 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.”
Genesis 44:34 in every translation
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.