Genesis 42:38

New King James Version

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some calamity befall him.”

Genesis 37:33

And he recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.”

Genesis 42:13

And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and in fact, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.”

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalm 71:18

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

1 Kings 2:6

Therefore do according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to the grave in peace.

Genesis 44:20

And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 42:37

Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”

Genesis 43:13

Take your brother also, and arise, go back to the man.

Genesis 44:22

And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

Job 41:32

He leaves a shining wake behind him; One would think the deep had white hair.