Good News TranslationHow can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."
New Revised Standard Version
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”
Contemporary English Version
How can I face my father if Benjamin isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father in such sorrow.
New American Bible
How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
lest.
1 Samuel 2:33,34 However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my altar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great part of thy house shall die, when they come to man's estate. . . .
2 Chronicles 34:28 For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They therefore reported to the king all that she had said.
Esther 8:6 For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?
Jeremiah 52:10,11 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha. . . .
come on.
Exodus 18:8 Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.
Job 31:29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.
Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.
