Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
If you take this one also from
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.
Holman Bible
If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’
International Standard Version
If you take this one from me, too, and then something harmful happens to him, then it will be death for me and my sad, gray hair!'
A Conservative 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.
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.
Amplified
If you take this one also from me, and harm or an accident happens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And took ye this also from my face, and harm befell him, and ye brought down my old age with evil to hades.
King James 2000
And if you take this also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'
Modern King James verseion
And if you take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.'
NET Bible
If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.'
New Heart 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.'
The Emphasized Bible
And I have never seen him since. As surely as ye take, this one also, away from before my face and there befall him any mischief, so surely shall ye bring down my grey hairs, with misfortune to hades.
Webster
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will 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.'
Youngs 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.
Themes
Children » Grief occasioned by loss of
Children » Instances of » Judah
Judah » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt for corn (grain)
Interlinear
Laqach
Paniym
Yarad
Seybah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 44:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Tests His Brothers
28 The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him, 29 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. 30 If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
Genesis 44:31
When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
Genesis 43:14
And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.
Deuteronomy 31:17
In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?
Psalm 88:3-4
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.