Parallel Verses

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.’

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

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.'

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And if ye take
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

עם 
`im 
with, unto, by, as long, neither, from between, from among
Usage: 1061

me
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

and mischief
אסון 
'acown 
Usage: 5

קרה 
Qarah 
Usage: 27

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

my gray hairs
שׂיבה 
Seybah 
Usage: 19

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Joseph Tests His Brothers

28 One left—I said that he must have been torn to pieces—and I have never seen him again. 29 If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’ 30 “So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—



Cross References

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 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”

Genesis 44:31

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

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’

Psalm 88:3-4

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

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