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made them sad (they were pretty well used to that, and perhaps lived jovially there), but the dream. Note, God has more ways than one to sadden the spirits of those that are to be made sad. Those sinners that are hardy enough under outward troubles, and will not yield to them, yet God can find out a way to punish; he can take off their wheels, by wounding their spirits, and laying loads upon them.
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 t o d a y ?
Joseph's great tenderness and compassion towards them. He enquired with concern, Wherefore look you so sadly to-day? Ge 40:7. Joseph was their keeper, and in that office he was mild. Note, It becomes us to take cognizance of the sorrows even of those that are under our check. Joseph was their companion in tribulation, he was now a prisoner with them, and had been a dreamer too. Note, Communion in sufferings helps to work compassion towards those that do suffer. Let us learn hence,
1. To concern ourselves in the sorrows and troubles of others, and to enquire into the reason of the sadness of our brethren's countenances; we should be often considering the tears of the oppressed, Ec 4:1. It is some relief to those that are in trouble to be taken notice of.
2. To enquire into the causes of our own sorrow, "Wherefore do I look so sadly? Is there a reason? Is it a good reason? Is there not a reason for comfort sufficient to balance it, whatever it is? Why art thou cast down, O my soul?"
8 And they said unto him, we have dreamed a dream, and there is no
interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me them, I pray you.
The dreams themselves, and the interpretation of them. That which troubled these prisoners was that being confined they could not have recourse to the diviners of Egypt who pretended to interpret dreams: There is no interpreter here in the prison, Ge 40:8. Note, There are interpreters which those that are in