Genesis 44:31

then when he sees that there is no boy, he will die, and we, your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

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It 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.

In Context

30Now if I return to your servant, my father, and the boy with whose life his heart is bound up is not with us,

32Indeed, my lord, I personally became surety for the boy to my father, when I said, ‘If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame in my father’s eyes forever.’

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Cross References

Genesis 37:35All his sons and his daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, saying, “I will go down to the grave mourning for my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

2 Corinthians 7:10For, when sorrow is in accordance with God’s will, it results in a repentance leading to salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is death.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:19-34

Judah's Appeal on Behalf of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And… Read the whole commentary →

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