Gen 44:34 | NET2full | STEP | 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

34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose—“I cannot go up lest I see.”} my father’s pain.” ^{▼▼tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”}