¹⁵ For perhaps he was therefore parted `from thee' for a season, that thou shouldest have him for ever;

⁵ And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

⁶ For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

⁷ And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

⁸ So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

²⁸ to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.

⁶ And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?