Genesis 42:38

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Genesis 42:38

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

Genesis 37:33

His father recognized it. “It is my son’s robe,” he said. “A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has been torn to pieces!”

Genesis 42:4

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

Genesis 42:13

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

Genesis 30:22-24

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

Genesis 35:16-18

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:27-34

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

1 Kings 2:6

Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head descend to Sheol in peace.

Psalm 71:18

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

Psalm 90:10

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Isaiah 38:10

I said: In the prime of my life
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.

Isaiah 46:4

I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

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Summary

Genesis 42:38

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

His brother

Genesis 44:20

If mischief

Genesis 42:4

Genesis 44:29

Bring

General references

Genesis 43:13

Bible References

His brother

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

His father recognized it. “It is my son’s robe,” he said. “A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has been torn to pieces!”

If mischief

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

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

Bring

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

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

Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head descend to Sheol in peace.

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

I said: In the prime of my life

I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.

I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

General references

Take your brother also, and go back at once to the man.