7So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"


In Context

4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,

5 each of the two men-the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison-had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

6 When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.

7 So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"

8 "We both had dreams," they answered, "but there is no one to interpret them." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams."

9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, "In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,

Genesis 40:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:7And 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:7He asked them, saying: Why is your oountenance sadder to day than usual?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:7And 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?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:7And 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?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:7He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, |Why do you look so sad today?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:7and 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?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look you so sadly to day?