Genèse 42:36

36 Alors Jacob, leur père, leur dit: Vous m'avez privé d'enfants: Joseph n'est plus, et Siméon n'est plus, et vous emmèneriez Benjamin! C'est sur moi que toutes ces choses sont tombées!

Genèse 42:36 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said unto them, me have ye bereaved
[of my children]
Which looks as if Jacob suspected that they had either sold or slain Joseph, and had done one or the other by Simeon: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not:
neither of them were with him, and both were given up by him as dead, or, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

``of Joseph ye have said an evil beast hath devoured him; and Simeon, ye say, the king of the country hath bound him;''

as for Joseph he knew not but he was dead, he feared he was; and as for Simeon, he being in the hands of so rough a man as they had represented the lord of the land to be, and especially as his release depended upon sending Benjamin, which he was determined at present not to do; he was reckoned by him as a lost or dead man: and ye will take Benjamin [away];
they were desirous of it, and what their design was he could not tell; he seems to have a strong suspicion that it was not good: all these things are against me;
against his will, his peace, and comfort, and happiness, though they were all working and would work as they did for his good, and for the good of his family, for the preservation of it during the seven years of famine; or are "upon me" {f}, as heavy burdens, too heavy for him to bear, ready to sink him down to the earth.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (yle) "super me", Montanus, Schmidt; "[vel.] in me", V. L. Vatablus.

Genèse 42:36 In-Context

34 Et amenez-moi votre jeune frère. Alors je connaîtrai que vous n'êtes point des espions, mais des gens de bien; je vous rendrai votre frère, et vous trafiquerez dans le pays.

35 Et comme ils vidaient leurs sacs, voici, le paquet d'argent de chacun était dans son sac; et ils virent, eux et leur père, leurs paquets d'argent, et ils eurent peur.

36 Alors Jacob, leur père, leur dit: Vous m'avez privé d'enfants: Joseph n'est plus, et Siméon n'est plus, et vous emmèneriez Benjamin! C'est sur moi que toutes ces choses sont tombées!

37 Et Ruben parla à son père, et lui dit: Tu feras mourir mes deux fils, si je ne te le ramène; confie-le-moi et je te le rendrai.

38 Et il répondit: Mon fils ne descendra point avec vous; car son frère est mort, et celui-ci est resté seul. Et s'il lui arrivait malheur dans le chemin par où vous irez, vous feriez descendre mes cheveux blancs avec douleur au Sépulcre.