For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? — lest I see the evil that would come on my father.