And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Ver. 37. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh.] The devil, no doubt, by the magicians and politicians of those times, did his utmost to hinder the king's purpose of preferring Joseph; as he did here for Cromwell, that great reformer, whom King Henry VIII, of a smith's son, made Earl of Essex. a But "there is neither counsel nor wisdom against the Lord." Pro 21:30
a Act. and Mon., 1070.