Genesis 40:7
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
In context
5 both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
6 When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.
7 So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
8 “We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
Genesis 40:7 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- WEB World English Bible
- He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in ward in his master’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and he asketh Pharaoh's eunuchs who [are] with him in charge in the house of his lord, saying, 'Wherefore [are] your faces sad to-day?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces [so] sad to-day?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look ye so sad to-day?