He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
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He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
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And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
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And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his master's house, saying: 'Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?'
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Genesis 40:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 2:2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
- 1 Samuel 1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
- Judges 18:24 He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’ ”
- 2 Samuel 13:4 He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
- Luke 24:17 He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, why are your faces evil?
Hebrew, why are your faces evil?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that [were]…
Gen 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day?
Ver. 7. And he asked Pharaoh’s officers, &c.] Vincula qui sensit, didicit succurrere vinctis. Joseph’s tender heart soon yearned toward them, upon the sight of their sadness: and, unasked, he offers himself to them; as our Saviour did to the widow of Nain, and to those two doubting disciples, Luk 24:17. Cyprian’s compassion is remarkable: Cum singulis pectus meum copulo, maeroris et funeris pondera luctuosa participo: cum plangentibus plunge, cum deflentibus defleo, &c. I weep with those that weep, and am like affected, as if like afflicted.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him,....…
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him,.... The chief butler and baker that were committed to his care, and with whom he now was:
in the ward of the lord's house; this seems to confirm what is before observed, that the captain of the guard that charged Joseph with them was Potiphar his master; though indeed the keeper of the prison that was under Potiphar, the captain of the guard, might be called Joseph's lord or master, but the house could not with so much propriety be called his:
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saying, wherefore look ye so sadly today? as they were officers, who had been in lucrative places, they lived well and merrily, and expected very probably they should be released in a short time, nothing appearing against them; but now there was a strange alteration in them, which was very visible to Joseph, and for which he expresses a concern, being of a kind, tender, and benevolent disposition, as the question he puts to them shows.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. look ye so sadly] Lit. “are your faces…
7. look ye so sadly] Lit. “are your faces bad,” cf. Neh_2:2.
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