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28 When one son left me, I thought, “Surely he has been torn apart by a wild animal,” and I haven’t seen him since. 29 Now you want to take this son away from ·me [L my face/presence] also. But something ·terrible [tragic; disastrous] might happen to him, and ·I would be miserable until the day I die [L you would bring my gray head down to Sheol in sorrow].’ 30 Now what will happen if we go home to [L your servant] our father without our ·youngest [smallest] brother? ·He is so important in our father’s life [L And his life/soul is so bound up in his life/soul] that

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28 One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.”(A) And I have not seen him since.(B) 29 If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave(C) in misery.’(D)

30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(E) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(F)

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