29 If you take this one away from me too, and a disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to Sheol in grief.’
30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, whose very life is bound up with his, he will die as soon as he sees that the boy is missing;
31 and your servants will thus send the white head of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.
32 Besides, I, your servant, have guaranteed the boy’s safety for my father by saying, ‘If I fail to bring him back to you, father, I will bear the blame before you forever.’
33 So now let me, your servant, remain in place of the boy as the slave of my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.
34 How could I go back to my father if the boy were not with me? I could not bear to see the anguish that would overcome my father.”