Catholic Public Domain Version
"For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father.” "
— Genesis 44:34, Catholic Public Domain 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. ”
“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 may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on 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. ”
and if he were to see that he is not with us, he would die, and your servants will lead his grey hairs down with sorrow to the grave.
Let me be your very own servant, for I accepted this one into my trust, and I promised, saying: ‘Unless I lead him back, I will be guilty of a sin against my father for all time.’
And so I, your servant, will remain in place of the boy, in ministry to my lord, and then let the boy go up with his brothers.
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father.”