“For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”
King James Version (KJV)
40:14 Think on me, when it shall be well with thee - Though the respect paid to Joseph, made the prison as easy to him as a prison could be, yet none can blame him to be desirous of liberty. See what a modest representation he makes of his own case. He doth not reflect upon his brethren that sold him, only saith, I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews. Nor doth he reflect on the wrong done him in this imprisonment by his mistress that was his persecutor, and his master that was his judge, but mildly avers his own innocency. Here have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon - When we are called to vindicate ourselves, we should carefully avoid as much as may be speaking ill of others. Let us be content to prove ourselves innocent, and not fond of upbraiding others with their guilt.
For indeed I was stollen away out of the land of the Hebrewes: and here also haue I done nothing, that they should put me into the dungeon.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.
- Basic English Bible
for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
- Darby Bible
For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
- Webster's Bible
For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
- World English Bible
for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they have put me in the pit.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible