He could order the princes as he wished. He taught the older men to be wise.
“So let the king choose a man who is very wise and understanding and set him over the land of Egypt.
And the king asked them, “Can we find a better man than Joseph to take this job? God’s spirit is truly in him!”
The king said to him, “I am the king, and I say that no one in all the land of Egypt may lift a hand or a foot without your permission.”
The officers of the city of Zoan are fools; the wise men who advise the king of Egypt give wrong advice. How can you say to him, ‘I am wise’? How can you say, ‘I am from the old family of the kings’?