Parallel Verses
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.
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]?”
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.
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 At this time thy servant shall now remain for the youth, a servant to my lord; and the youth shall go up with his brethren. 34 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.
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Cross References
Esther 8:6
For how shall I be able and I looked upon the evil which shall be found with my people? And how shall I be able and I looked upon the destruction of my kindred?
Exodus 18:8
And Moses will recount to his father-in-law all which Jehovah did to Pharaoh, and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the distress which found them in the way; and Jehovah will deliver them.
1 Samuel 2:33-34
And a man I will not cut off to thee from mine altar to finish thine eyes and to cause thy soul to pine away: and all the increase of thy house, the men, shall die.
2 Chronicles 34:28
Behold me gathering thee to thy fathers, and thou wert gathered to thy graves in peace, and thine eyes shall not look upon all the evil which I bring upon this place and upon its inhabitants. And they will turn back word to the king.
Job 31:29
If I shall rejoice in the destruction of him hating me, and I exalted when evil found him:
Psalm 116:3
The pains of death surrounded me, and the distresses of hades found me: shall find straits and affliction.
Psalm 119:143
Straits and distress found me: thy commands my delight
Jeremiah 52:10-11
And the king of Babel will slaughter the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: and he slaughtered also all the chiefs of Judah in Riblah.