All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, *For I will go down to She'ol to my son mourning.* His father wept for him.
Genesis 44:29 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol.' Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead). American Standard Version (1901) and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. Common English Bible And if you take this one from me too, something terrible will happen to him, and you will send me—old as I am—to my grave in despair.’ Catholic Public Domain Version If you take this one also, and anything happens to him on the way, you will lead my grey hairs down with grief to the grave.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell. |
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, *For I will go down to She'ol to my son mourning.* His father wept for him.
Ya`akov, their father, said to them, *You have bereaved me of my children! Yosef is no more, Shim`on is no more, and you want to take Binyamin away. All these things are against me.*
He said, *My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to She'ol.*
But Ya`akov didn't send Binyamin, Yosef's brother, with his brothers; for he said, *Lest perhaps harm happen to him.*
May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Binyamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.*
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to She'ol.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?