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He calls him
the child comparatively to his brethren, though he was seventeen years old, Gen_37:2.
The child is not, i.e. is not in the land of the living, or is dead, as that phrase is commonly used, as Gen_42:13,36, compared with Gen_44:20 Job_7:21 Jer_31:15 Lam_5:7 Mat_2:18.
I, whither shall I go, either to find the child, or to flee from our father? He is more solicitous than the rest, because he being the eldest brother, his father would require Joseph at his hand; and being so highly incensed against him for his former crime, would be the more apt to suspect him, and deal more severely with him.