Genesis 41:16
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Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

It is not.

Genesis 40:8 They 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:

Numbers 12:6 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

2 Kings 6:27 And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

Daniel 2:18-23,28-30,47 To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. . . .

Daniel 4:2 I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me.

Acts 3:7,12 And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up: and forthwith his feet and soles received strength. . . .

Acts 14:14,15 Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying, . . .

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

peace.

Genesis 37:14 I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

Luke 19:42 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.

Context
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
15And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them: 16Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.17So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,…
Cross References
Acts 3:12
But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk?

2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

Genesis 40:8
They 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:

Genesis 41:17
So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,

Genesis 41:25
Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:28
Which shall be fulfilled in this order.

Deuteronomy 29:29
Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Daniel 2:22
He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.

Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

Daniel 2:30
To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have more than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made manifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thought of thy mind.

Zechariah 4:6
And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Lexicon
“I myself cannot do it,”
בִּלְעָדָ֑י (bil·‘ā·ḏāy)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1107: Apart from, except, without

Joseph
יוֹסֵ֧ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

replied,
וַיַּ֨עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

“but God
אֱלֹהִ֕ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will give Pharaoh
פַּרְעֹֽה׃ (par·‘ōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6547: Pharaoh -- a title of Egypt kings

a favorable
שְׁל֥וֹם (šə·lō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

answer.”
יַעֲנֶ֖ה (ya·‘ă·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond


Additional Translations
“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

And Joseph answered Pharao and said, Without God an answer of safety shall not be given to Pharao.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, 'Without me -- God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.'
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