And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
Ver. 15. Joseph will peradventure hate us.] An ill conscience, we are sure, still haunts them as a hell-hag, and fills them with unquestionable conviction and horror. Better be langold [tied] to a lion than to an unquiet conscience. See Trapp on " Gen 4:14 " See Trapp on " Gen 42:21 " Such take no more rest than one upon a rack or bed of thorns. There were not many to kill Cain besides his father and his mother, and yet he cries, "Every one that finds me," &c.