# For if we had not delayed, surely by now we would have come back here a second time

They delayed because their father waited so long to send his sons to Egypt to get more food. Judah is complaining that they could not go sooner. He wishes that they had not delayed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hypo]])

# we would have come back here a second time

"we could have gone and returned twice"

