Genesis 40:7
Good News Translation
He asked them, "Why do you look so worried today?"

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

Contemporary English Version
and he asked, "Why are you so worried today?"

New American Bible
So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why do you look so troubled today?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?

Wherefore.

Judges 18:24 And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?

1 Samuel 1:8 Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children?

2 Samuel 13:4 And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.

Nehemiah 2:2 And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:

Luke 24:17 And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad?

look ye so sadly to-day.

Context
The Cupbearer and the Baker
6And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad, 7He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual?8They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:…
Cross References
Genesis 40:6
And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them sad,

Genesis 42:17
So he put them in prison three days.

Nehemiah 2:2
And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:

Genesis 40:6
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