But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn
But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now wi
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and h
So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they qui
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead.
Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry y
I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”