Genesis 44:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.””
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“For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“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.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 44:34 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 18:8Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
- 1 Samuel 2:33And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
- Esther 8:6For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
- Job 31:29If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- Jeremiah 52:10There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
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