Jacob exclaimed,“ You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone! Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!”
before I leave— never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom.It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’”
Then I said,“ Lord, you know what’s happening to me. Please step in and help me. Punish my persecutors! Please give me time; don’t let me die young. It’s for your sake that I am suffering.