Genesis 44:29
Good News Translation
If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'

New Revised Standard Version
If you take this one also from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.’

Contemporary English Version
and he said, "I am an old man. If you take Benjamin from me, and something happens to him, I will die of a broken heart."

New American Bible
If you take this one away from me too, and a disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to Sheol in grief.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

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If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

And if.

Genesis 42:36,38 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me. . . .

Genesis 43:14 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

Psalm 88:3,4 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

sorrow.

Genesis 44:31 And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 42:38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Deuteronomy 31:17 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me.

Psalm 88:4 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
28One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not. 29If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.30Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)…
Cross References
Genesis 37:35
And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

Genesis 42:38
But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 44:31
And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 44:28
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