But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father bewailed him.
“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, be courageous,
before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
He replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”