ASV: 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.
BBE: For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?
DBY: 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.
KJV: 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.
JPS: For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.'
WBS: 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.
WEB: 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."
YLT: 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.'
