Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

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.

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.”

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For how can I go vp to my father, if the childe be not with me, vnlesse I woulde see the euil that shall come on my father?

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.

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.'

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?

In context

33Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

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