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30 “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life. 31 If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave. 32 My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame forever.’

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30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(B) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(C) Your servants(D) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(E) in sorrow. 32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’(F)

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