Parallel Verses
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.
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.’
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.
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 and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto. 29 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. 30 And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, seeing that his life is bound up with his life,
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin! All these things are against me.
Genesis 44:31
it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 43:14
And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved.
Deuteronomy 31:17
And 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 befall them, and they will say in that day, Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst?
Psalm 88:3-4
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.