Genesis 42:38

Tree of Life Version

But he said, “My son will not go down with you—for his brother is dead and he alone remains. And if harm should happen to him along the way you’re going, you’ll bring my grey hair down to Sheol in grief.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:33

He did recognize it and said, “My son’s tunic! An evil animal has devoured him! Joseph must be torn to pieces!”

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothing and put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons got up along with all his daughters to console him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” So his father kept weeping for him.

Genesis 42:13

But they said, “We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan. Look, the youngest is with our father today and the other one is no more.”

Genesis 42:37

Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You can put my two sons to death if I don’t bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I—I will return him to you.”

Genesis 42:4

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send, for he said, “An accident might happen to him.”

Genesis 43:13

Take your brother too—now, get up, go back to the man!

Genesis 44:20

So we said to my lord, ‘We have a father who is old, a child born to him of his old age is young. Now his brother is dead, so he is the only one of his mother’s children left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:22

But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave his father, he would die.’

1 Kings 2:6

So act according to your wisdom, and let his gray hair not go down to Sheol in shalom.

Psalm 71:18

So even until I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, till I tell of Your strong arm to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

Psalm 90:10

The span of our years is seventy —or with strength, eighty— yet at best they are trouble and sorrow. For they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.

Isaiah 38:10

I said: “In the prime of my life, I am to enter the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the rest of my years.”

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age I will be the same, until you are gray I will carry you. I have done it; I will bear you; I will carry you; I will deliver you.