²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.

²⁹ And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).

³⁰ Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life and his soul knit with the lad’s soul,