Genesis 44:34
For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that will oppress my father.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non enim possum redire ad patrem meum, absente puero : ne calamitatis, quæ oppressura est patrem meum, testis assistam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πῶς γὰρ ἀναβήσομαι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, τοῦ παιδίου μὴ ὄντος μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν; ἵνα μὴ ἴδω τὰ κακὰ ἃ εὑρήσει τὸν πατέρα μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּי אֵיךְ֙ אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה אֶל אָבִ֔י וְהַנַּ֖עַר אֵינֶ֣נּוּ אִתִּ֑י פֶּ֚ן אֶרְאֶ֣ה בָרָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִמְצָ֖א אֶת אָבִֽי
Haydock's commentary
My father; who will drop down dead, oppressed with grief. How eloquent and pathetic was this address! Joseph could bear no more.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.