Genesis 44:34 Parallel Translations

How could I go back to my father if the boy isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's misery!"(GOD'S WORD®)

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.

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.

BBE:

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

DBY:

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.

ERV:

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

JPS:

For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'

WBS:

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.

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."

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.'

Genesis 44:34 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 44:33 "Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, "Have everyone go out from me." So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

44:34 For {h} 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.
(h) Meaning, he would rather remain as their prisoner, than to return and see his father in sorrow.

MHC:

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 apostle, when discoursing of the mediation of Christ, observes, that our Lord sprang out of Judah, Heb 7:14; and he not only made intercession for the transgressors, but he became a Surety for them, testifying therein tender concern, both for his Father and for his brethren. Jesus, the great antitype of Joseph, humbles and proves his people, even after they have had some tastes of his loving-kindness. He brings their sins to their remembrance, that they may exercise and show repentance, and feel how much they owe to his mercy.

CONC:

Boy Evil Fear Isn't Lad Lest Me-for Misery Overtake Peradventure Perhaps Return Youth

Boy Evil Fear Find Me-For Misery Overtake Peradventure Perhaps Youth

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