Génesis 37:30

30 Luego regresó a donde estaban sus hermanos y dijo lamentándose: «¡El muchacho desapareció! ¿Qué voy a hacer ahora?».

Génesis 37:30 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:30

And he returned unto his brethren
From the pit, and whom he suspected had took him and killed him, as was their first design, not being with them when they proposed to sell him, and did:

and said, the child [is] not;
not in the pit, nor in the land of the living, but is dead, which is sometimes the meaning of the phrase, ( Jeremiah 31:15 ) ; he calls him a child, though seventeen years of age, because the youngest brother but one, and he himself was the eldest, and also because of his tender concern for him:

and I, whither shall I go?
to find the child or flee from his father's face, which he could not think of seeing any more; whom he had highly offended already in the case of Bilhah, and now he would be yet more incensed against him for his neglect of Joseph, who, he might have expected, would have taken particular care of him, being the eldest son: he speaks like one in the utmost perplexity, not knowing what to do, what course to steer, being almost distracted and at his wits' end.

Génesis 37:30 In-Context

28 Entonces, cuando se acercaron los ismaelitas, que eran mercaderes madianitas, los hermanos de José lo sacaron de la cisterna y se lo vendieron por veinte monedas
de plata. Y los mercaderes lo llevaron a Egipto.

29 Tiempo después, Rubén regresó para sacar a José de la cisterna. Cuando descubrió que José no estaba allí, se rasgó la ropa en señal de lamento.

30 Luego regresó a donde estaban sus hermanos y dijo lamentándose: «¡El muchacho desapareció! ¿Qué voy a hacer ahora?».

31 Entonces los hermanos mataron un cabrito y mojaron la túnica de José con la sangre.

32 Luego enviaron la hermosa túnica a su padre con el siguiente mensaje: «Mira lo que encontramos. Esta túnica, ¿no es la de tu hijo?».