34For 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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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?
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.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-34)We have here a most ingenious and pathetic speech which Judah made to Joseph on Benjamin’s behalf, to obtain his discharge from the sentence passed upon him. Perhaps Judah was a better friend to Benjamin than the rest were, and more solicitous to bring him off; or he thought himself under greater obligations to attempt it than the rest, because he had passed his word to his father for his safe ret…
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