Genesis 40:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, “Why are your faces downcast today?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, Why do you look so dejected and sad today?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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?

Common English Bible

⁷ He asked the officers of Pharaoh who were under arrest with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so distressed today?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ he consulted them, saying, "Why is your expression sadder today than usual?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?

Genesis 40:7 Cross References

Genesis 40:6

When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, they were troubled.

Genesis 42:17

And he put them all together in prison for three days.

2 Samuel 13:4

And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing else but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

Luke 24:17

And he said to them, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.

Judges 18:24

And he said, “You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What ails you?’ ”

1 Samuel 1:8

And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”