Genesis 44:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will be responsible for his death and will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Common English Bible

³¹ and when he sees that the young man isn’t with us, he will die, and your servants will have sent our father your servant—old as he is—to his grave in grief.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ and if he were to see that he is not with us, he would die, and your servants will lead his grey hairs down with sorrow to the grave.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 44:31 Cross References

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:38

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:29

and if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, which have no hope.

1 Samuel 22:22

And David said unto Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.