Genesis 44:29 “Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will…”

Genesis 44:29

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

World English Bible

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

American Standard Version

and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe yee take this also away from me: if death take him, then yee shall bring my graye head in sorowe to the graue.

Darby Translation

And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation

when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

Bible in Basic English

If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

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Cross references

“And if”

Genesis 42:38 Genesis 43:14 Genesis 42:36 Psalm 88:3 Psalm 88:4

Genesis 42:38 · BSB

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Genesis 43:14 · BSB

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 42:36 · BSB

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

Psalm 88:3 · BSB

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Psalm 88:4 · BSB

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

“sorrow”

Genesis 44:31 Deuteronomy 31:17

Genesis 44:31 · BSB

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Deuteronomy 31:17 · BSB

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not the…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

30So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

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