Teks -- Genesis 40:7 (NET)

40:7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Gen 40:5-8 - they dreamed a dream

Joseph, influenced by the spirit of true religion, could feel for others (Ecc 4:1; Rom 12:15; Phi 2:4). Observing them one day extremely depressed, he inquired the cause of their melancholy; and being informed it was owing to a dream they had respectively dreamed during the previous night, after piously directing them to God (Dan 2:30; Isa 26:10), he volunteered to aid them, through the divine help, in discovering the import of their vision. The influence of Providence must be seen in the remarkable fact of both officers dreaming such dreams in one night. He moves the spirits of men.

TSK: Gen 40:7 - Wherefore // look ye so sadly to day

Wherefore : Jdg 18:24; 1Sa 1:8; 2Sa 13:4; Neh 2:2; Luk 24:17

look ye so sadly to day : Heb. are your faces evil

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Gen 40:7 - And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him // in the ward of the lord's house // saying, wherefore look ye so sadly today

And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him,.... The chief butler and baker that were committed to his care, and with whom he now was:

in the ward of the lord's house; this seems to confirm what is before observed, that the captain of the guard that charged Joseph with them was Potiphar his master; though indeed the keeper of the prison that was under Potiphar, the captain of the guard, might be called Joseph's lord or master, but the house could not with so much propriety be called his:

saying, wherefore look ye so sadly today? as they were officers, who had been in lucrative places, they lived well and merrily, and expected very probably they should be released in a short time, nothing appearing against them; but now there was a strange alteration in them, which was very visible to Joseph, and for which he expresses a concern, being of a kind, tender, and benevolent disposition, as the question he puts to them shows.