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 rose up 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 wept for him.
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,