Genesis 42:36
42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.
Simeon is gone.
And now you want to take
Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
Genesis 42:38
42:38 But Jacob
replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.
If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair
in sorrow to the grave.”
Genesis 43:14
43:14 May the sovereign God
grant you mercy before the man so that he may release
your other brother
and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”
Psalms 88:3-4
88:3 For my life is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol.
88:4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave.
I am like a helpless man,