And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

the plenty.

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

cubits. When the waters are lower than this standard, they do not overflow the whole ground; when above this standard they are too long in running off. In the first case, the ground is not saturated; by the second, the waters are detained so long on the ground that seed-time is lost. The province marks both. If it rise only

Genesis 41:12 There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,

cubits, a famine is the consequence; at

Genesis 41:13 And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

hunger prevails;

Genesis 41:14 Forthwith at the king's command Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to him.

produces general rejoicing;

15 perfect security; and

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

all the luxuries of life.

grievous.

1 Samuel 5:6 And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a great mortality in the city.

Isaiah 24:20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.