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.’

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.”

¹⁴ May ^(A)God Almighty^{[a] (B)}grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, ^(C)if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

¹⁷ Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^(A)I will forsake them and ^(B)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ^(C)‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^(D)our God is not among us?’

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.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, “You have ^(A)bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”