וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה מַה־נֹּאמַר֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י מַה־נְּדַבֵּ֖ר וּמַה־נִּצְטַדָּ֑ק הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים מָצָא֙ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ הִנֶּנּ֤וּ עֲבָדִים֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י גַּם־אֲנַ֕חְנוּ גַּ֛ם אֲשֶׁר־נִמְצָ֥א הַגָּבִ֖יעַ בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
Entonces dijo Judá: ¿Qué diremos á mi señor? ¿qué hablaremos? ¿ó con qué nos justificaremos? Dios ha hallado la maldad de tus siervos: he aquí, nosotros somos siervos de mi señor, nosotros, y también aquél en cuyo poder fué hallada la copa.
Havot Yair
And someone who was friendly with the thief for his own benefit made efforts and vouched for him. But one of the learned townspeople took cause with him and said that it is forbidden to save him from the death penalty due to the blood of his fellow Jew whom he killed. Just the opposite, if one of the relatives of the one killed were there, he could have turned him in to the government, as per the law of the blood redeemer. So how could he make efforts to save him? And even though, since this was from the Lord [alluding to Psalms 118:23], and the one making efforts was not successful, the smelter smelted to no purpose [alluding to Jeremiah 6:29], and he was hung, it nevertheless came to my mind that, had this been a question raised to a sage, what would we say and what would we speak [alluding to Genesis 44:16] about it?