Genesis 40:7
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New International Version (©2011)
So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Why do you look so worried today?" he asked them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in confinement in his master's house, "Why are your faces so sad today?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?""

International Standard Version (©2012)
So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in prison in his master's house, "Why are you so sad today?"

NET Bible (©2006)
So he asked Pharaoh's officials, who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why do you look so sad today?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So he asked these officials of Pharaoh who were with him in his master's prison, "Why do you look so unhappy today?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why do you look so sad today?

American King James Version
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look you so sadly to day?

American Standard Version
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?

Douay-Rheims Bible
He asked them, saying: Why is your oountenance sadder to day than usual?

Darby Bible Translation
And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces so sad to-day?

English Revised Version
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

Webster's Bible Translation
And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look ye so sad to-day?

World English Bible
He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Young's Literal Translation
and he asketh Pharaoh's eunuchs who are with him in charge in the house of his lord, saying, 'Wherefore are your faces sad to-day?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:1-19 It was not so much the prison that made the butler and baker sad, as their dreams. God has more ways than one to sadden the spirits. Joseph had compassion towards them. Let us be concerned for the sadness of our brethren's countenances. It is often a relief to those that are in trouble to be noticed. Also learn to look into the causes of our own sorrow. Is there a good reason? Is there not comfort sufficient to balance it, whatever it is? Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Joseph was careful to ascribe the glory to God. The chief butler's dream foretold his advancement. The chief baker's dream his death. It was not Joseph's fault that he brought the baker no better tidings. And thus ministers are but interpreters; they cannot make the thing otherwise than it is: if they deal faithfully, and their message prove unpleasing, it is not their fault. Joseph does not reflect upon his brethren that sold him; nor does he reflect on the wrong done him by his mistress and his master, but mildly states his own innocence. When we are called on to clear ourselves, we should carefully avoid, as much as may be, speaking ill of others. Let us be content to prove ourselves innocent, and not upbraid others with their guilt.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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The Cupbearer and the Baker
…6And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked on them, and, behold, they were sad. 7And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Why look you so sadly to day? 8And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you. …

Genesis 40:6 When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.
Genesis 42:17 And he put them all in custody for three days.
Nehemiah 2:2 so the king asked me, "Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart." I was very much afraid,