The secret of Joseph’s career at that stage of his life can be summed up in a single phrase—boundless industry. Not for Joseph was the long face, the sullen look, the resentful air. Not for him were senseless criticisms of fate and long, wasted hours plotting revenge. Not for him the futile cursing of God and the gnawing cancer of longed-for revenge. Not for Joseph the dull acquiescence with fate that would have turned him into
Genesis 39:1–6