Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’ And his father wept for him.