³⁵ All his sons and all his daughters ^(A)rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, ^(B)I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

³⁸ But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for ^(A)his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. ^(B)If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, ^(C)you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

²⁹ If you ^(A)take this one also from me, ^(B)and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

³¹ as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

³⁰ But if the Lord creates something new, and ^(A)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they ^(B)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

³³ So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and ^(A)they perished from the midst of the assembly.

⁶ Act therefore ^(A)according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.