Then Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

犹大对众弟兄说：“我们杀我们的兄弟，藏了他的血有什么益处呢？

犹大对他的兄弟们说：“我们杀我们的弟弟，遮掩他的血有什么好处呢？

犹大对他的兄弟们说：“我们杀我们的弟弟，遮掩他的血有什么好处呢？

犹大对他的众弟兄说：“我们杀死弟弟、掩盖罪行有什么益处呢？

犹大对他的众兄弟说：“我们杀了我们的兄弟，把他的血隐藏起来，究竟有什么益处呢？

犹大对他的兄弟们说：“如果我们杀了自己的兄弟，掩盖他的血，有什么好处呢？

猶大對眾弟兄說：「我們殺我們的兄弟，藏了他的血有甚麼益處呢？

猶大對他的兄弟們說：「我們殺我們的弟弟，遮掩他的血有甚麼好處呢？

猶大對他的兄弟們說：「我們殺我們的弟弟，遮掩他的血有甚麼好處呢？

猶大對他的眾弟兄說：「我們殺死弟弟、掩蓋罪行有什麼益處呢？

猶大對他的眾兄弟說：“我們殺了我們的兄弟，把他的血隱藏起來，究竟有甚麼益處呢？

猶大對弟兄們說：『我們殺了我們的兄弟，把他的血掩蓋了，有甚麼益處呢？

猶大對他的兄弟們說：「如果我們殺了自己的兄弟，掩蓋他的血，有什麼好處呢？

猶大謂兄弟曰、殺弟而匿其血、何益之有、

猶大謂諸兄曰、殺弟而匿其血、何益之有、此乃我手足之親、毋戕其生。

猶大謂兄弟曰、殺弟而匿其血、何益之有、

Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain if we kill our brother and try to cover up what we’ve done?

Then Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the crime.

Judah said to his brothers,“ What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

And Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?

So Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

Then Judah said to his brothers,“ What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit[ is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”

But the LORD said,“ What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

“ O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

David said to him,“ Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘ I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”

For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

“ Look,” said Esau,“ I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

“ What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael,“ Do not kill us. For we will give you the stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey we have hidden in a field. So he spared their lives and did not kill them along with the rest.