“I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:”
I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life. The personal guarantee — I will bear the blame before you all my life — is the offer of lifelong accountability that Reuben's offer of his sons' lives failed to be. The application: the person who accepts lifelong personal accountability for another's welfare is making a more credible offer than the person who proposes dramatic but abstract consequences.
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