Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;”
and I haven’t seen him since.
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;
