Joseph was in command of the officials, and he taught the leaders how to use wisdom.
Your Majesty, you should find someone who is wise and will know what to do, so that you can put him in charge of all Egypt.
So the king said to them, “No one could possibly handle this better than Joseph, since the Spirit of God is with him.”
The king told Joseph, “Although I'm king, no one in Egypt is to do anything without your permission.”
The king's officials in Zoan are foolish themselves and give stupid advice. How can they say to him, “We are very wise, and our families go back to kings of long ago”?