³⁸ But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for ^(A)his brother is dead, and he is left alone. ^(B)If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would ^(C)bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters ^(A)arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For ^(B)I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

⁴ But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, ^(A)“Lest some calamity befall him.”

³³ And he recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A ^(A)wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.”

¹³ And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and in fact, the youngest is with our father today, and one ^(A)is no more.”

Death of Rachel

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷ Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; ^(A)you will have this son also.” ¹⁸ And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name ^[a]Ben-Oni; but his father called him ^[b]Benjamin.

²⁶ For God gives ^(A)wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that ^(B)he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.