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Gen_40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you.
Ver. 8. And there is no interpreter.] The superstitious Egyptians did curiously observe their dreams; and commonly repaired to the soothsayers for an interpretation. {Gen_41:8} Joseph calls these idolaters from their superstitions vanities to the living God; as Isaiah did those of his time, {Isa_8:19-20} and Daniel those of his. {Dan_2:28; Dan_5:18} He had consulted with God by prayer, and with the Scripture, which revealed sufficient direction to him, {Eze_31:1-12} and so soon despatched the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. {Dan_4:10} So Joseph here; he suffered "troubles as an evildoer, even unto bonds: but the word of God is not bound." {2Ti_2:9}