27. Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons;
28. and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces," and I have not seen him since.
29. If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'
30. Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life,
31. when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
32. For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.'
33. Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.
34. For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me-for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?"