Quotes about Responsibility
I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
— Genesis 43:9
Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
— Genesis 43:12
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
— Genesis 44:9
“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
— Genesis 44:10
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
— Genesis 44:25
Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
— Genesis 44:29
So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
— Genesis 44:30
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
— Genesis 44:32
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
— Genesis 44:33
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
— Genesis 44:34
When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
— Genesis 46:33