Genesis 40:8
They answered. “We have had a dream and there is no one who can interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not the interpretations of dreams belong to God? Tell them to me.”
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7So he asked Pharaoh’s officers, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Cross References
Genesis 41:16Joseph answered Pharaoh, “Not I; God only can give Pharaoh a satisfactory answer.”
Amos 3:7Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing his purpose to his servants the prophets.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 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? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →