Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, — seeing that his life is bound up with his life,