Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.'
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 first disappeared and I said, "He has surely been torn to pieces." I have not seen him since. 29 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.' 30 "So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us -- his very life is bound up in his son's life.
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."
Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said to them, "You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me."
Genesis 44:31
When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 43:14
May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them."
Deuteronomy 31:17
At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time, 'Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?'
Psalm 88:3-4
For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.