2 Samuel 12:23

23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? vI shall go to him, but he wwill not return to me.”

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Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Job 7:8–10
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.

Job 10:21
before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,


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