Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of LORD tried him.
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And, behold, he stood by the river.
Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day.
And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants who ministered to him said, There is nothing done for him.
For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.