Yet did not the chief butler 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: the word of the LORD tried him.
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: 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 spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
And the king said, What honor and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, 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.