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Genesis 44:34

WEB

34For 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.”

KJV

34For 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.

BSB

34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

FBV

34For how could I ever go back to my father if the boy wasn't with me? I couldn't stand seeing the anguish that would cause my father.”

Related Resources

Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Esther 8:6

6For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Psalms 119:143

143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Jeremiah 52:10-11

10The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

Psalms 116:3

3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol[+] a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

1 Samuel 2:33-34

33The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes[+] and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. 34This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

2 Chronicles 34:28

28“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” They brought back this message to the king.

Job 31:29

29“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

Exodus 18:8

8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.