"For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father."
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And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on 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.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
For how shall I return to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father.
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
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.'