Genesis 44:34
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.
Genesis 44:34 in other translations
| 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.” |
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| 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.” |
| ASV | 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 | 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.' |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on 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. |
What does Genesis 44:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:34
- Esther 8:6
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
- Exodus 18:8
And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
- Job 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- 1 Samuel 2:33-34
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
- Jeremiah 52:10-11
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
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Context
- Genesis 44:33
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
- Genesis 44:34
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.
Genesis 44:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ¿cómo iré yo á mi padre sin el mozo? No podré, por no ver el mal que sobrevendrá á mi padre. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car comment monterai-je vers mon père, si le jeune homme n’est pas avec moi? – de peur que je ne voie le malheur qui atteindrait mon père! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn wie sollte ich zu meinem Vater hinaufziehen, wenn der Knabe nicht bei mir wäre? -daß ich nicht das Unglück ansehen müsse, welches meinen Vater treffen würde! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non enim possum redire ad patrem meum, absente puero: ne calamitatis, quæ oppressura est patrem meum, testis assistam. |