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