¹⁵ for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,

⁵ and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

⁶ `Because these two years the famine `is' in the heart of the land, and yet `are' five years, `in' which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;

⁷ and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;

⁸ and now, ye -- ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil -- God devised it for good, in order to do as `at' this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

¹⁰ For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.

⁶ and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day -- Lo, thus `is' our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?'