Genesis 44:22 (BSB)

So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’

From Genesis 44. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 44:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34: We have here a most ingenious and pathetic speech which Judah made to Joseph on Benjamin's behalf, to obtain his discharge from the sentence passed upon him. Perhaps Judah was a better friend to Benjamin than the rest were, and more solicitous to bring him off; or he thought himself under greater obligations to attempt it than the rest, because he had passed his word...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 44:22: And we said unto my lord, the lad cannot leave his father,.... That is, his father will not be willing to part with him: for if he should leave his father, his father would die; with grief and trouble, fearing some evil was befallen him, and he should see him no more.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 44:21-26: Gen 44:21-26 To “set eyes upon him” signifies, with a gracious intention, to show him good-will (as in Jer 39:12; Jer 40:4).