Genesis 37:35
37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by 1 him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” 2 So Joseph’s 3 father wept for him.
Genesis 44:31
44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, 4 he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
1 tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.
2 tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.
3 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”