Parallel Verses

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,

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 overtake my father?”

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]?”

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?

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."

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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

shall I go up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

to my father
H1
אב 
'ab 
Usage: 1214

and the lad
נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 239

be not with me lest peradventure I see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Joseph Tests His Brothers

33 Now, therefore, I pray thee let thy servant remain instead of the lad, as servant to my lord, - but as for the lad, let him go up with his brethren. 34 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,



Cross References

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the ruin that shall overtake my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Exodus 18:8

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law, all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians, for Israel's sake, - all the hardship which had befallen them by the way, and how Yahweh had delivered them.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

But, any man of thine whom I may not cut off from mine altar, it shall be - to consume his eyes, and grieve his soul; Howbeit, all the multitude of thy house, shall die, by the sword of men.

2 Chronicles 34:28

Behold me! gathering thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy sepulchres in peace, and thine eyes shall not look upon all the calamity which, I, am bringing in upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they returned, unto the king, the message.

Job 31:29

If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; -

Psalm 116:3

The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;

Psalm 119:143

Straitness and distress, have befallen me, Thy commandments, are my dear delights.

Jeremiah 52:10-11

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, - moreover also all the princes of Judah, slew he in Riblah;

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