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?"
— Genesis 44:34-1964, Bible in Basic English
“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. ”
“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. ”
“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."”
“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.””
“For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father. ”
“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. ”
When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?