31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.


In Context

28 and the one went out from me, and I said, |Surely he is torn in pieces;| and I haven't seen him since.

29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;

31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

Genesis 44:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad [is] not [with us,] that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

44:31sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

44:31it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us , that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:31it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not there, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

44:31it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father, with sorrow to the grave.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

44:31then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:31It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.