Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would
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.
Holman Bible
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”
International Standard Version
After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
How can I go up to my father if the young man is not with me—for fear that I would see the tragedy that would overtake my [elderly] father [if Benjamin does not return]?”
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For how shall I go up to my father and the youth not with me? lest I shall look upon the evil which shall find my father.
King James 2000
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."
Modern King James verseion
For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy is not with me lest perhaps I see the evil that will find my father?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For how can I go unto my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that shall come on my father?"
NET Bible
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."
New Heart 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."
The Emphasized Bible
For how can I go up unto my father, should the lad, not be with me? lest I look on the calamity, that shall find out 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.
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."
Youngs 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.'
Themes
Children » Instances of » Judah
Judah » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt for corn (grain)
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers. 34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
Names
Cross References
Esther 8:6
For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?
Exodus 18:8
And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.
1 Samuel 2:33-34
But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.
2 Chronicles 34:28
See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.
Job 31:29
If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;
Psalm 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Psalm 119:143
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Jeremiah 52:10-11
And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.