Genesis 42:38

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

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

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

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.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

We said to 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 loves him.’

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.