Genesis 44:34

Genesis 44:34 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."
• New King James Version (NKJV)For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would come upon my father?”

Context of Genesis 44:34

32Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’ 33Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers. For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Genesis 44:34 word by word

כִּי־אֵיךְ֙ אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה אֶל־אָבִ֔י וְהַנַּ֖עַר אֵינֶ֣נּוּ אִתִּ֑י פֶּ֚ן אֶרְאֶ֣ה בָרָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִמְצָ֖א אֶת־אָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• Forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• howאֵיךְ'êyk 'êykâh 'êykâkâh · how?H349
• can I go backעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• toאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413
• my fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1
• withoutאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• withoutאֵת'êth · withH854
• the boyנַ֫עַרna‛ar · youthH5288
• I could not bearפֶּן־pên · lestH6435
• to seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• the miseryרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• thatאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
• would overwhelmמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853

Cross-references for Genesis 44:34

• 1 Samuel 2:33And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to 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 people.’” 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?”
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Commentaries on Genesis 44:34

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-34Verses 1-34 - The Ten Brothers Were Tested Joseph has had the satisfaction of seeing his brother Benjamin safe and well. He has heard his brothers acknowledging their guilt concerning himself. He resolves to put their attachment to Benjamin, and the genuineness of their change of disposition, to a test that will at the same time expose Benjamin to no hazard. Genesis 44:1-5 And my cup. - Besides returning each man‘s money as before, a silver cup of…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-34Verses 18-34 Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The apostle, when discoursing of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 32-34Judah was willing to give up his family, his future, and his freedom for others.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-3416-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be laid on the altar, when he heard the…Read the comment

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• Children
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Commentaries on Genesis 44

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings