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.”"
— Genesis 44:34, NET Bible
“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 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. ”
When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’
“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.
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.”