2. Matz' liakh (prosperous), that is the fruit of the Lord's being with one; Adonai—what matter, if the Lord was with him, and made all prosper with him. Ish-matz' liakh (a man prosperous). He prospered, for Jehovah mate liakh, Jehovah made to prosper, that is what it is.
4. Vay' shareth (and he served), i.e., waited on him personally.
9. It was a plain moral wrong against God—not a question of Jehovah's dealings.
21. This was as true as when Jehovah was matz' liakh (prospering) him—how blessed this! and the consciousness of it makes prison and prosperity alike. And it ends here, as there (though the prison was a little lower than a slave) in favor, Jehovah matz' liakh (prospered) him; this is what we want. It is connected—though the prison was with the fear of God; but it is all Jehovah in government—not God Almighty.
If Abraham give us the bright and blessed picture of communion with God, in Joseph we find goodness and unsullied integrity of heart towards God, in the midst of, and where the power of evil was. It is a lovely picture, and, in this, a beautiful foreshadowing of the Lord in His life-the Beloved of His Father.
Faithfulness is the way of divine spiritual understanding.
How we have got on here from the great outlines and principles of truth, and God's ways, and the freshness of individual faith to the working out of righteousness; the time came that his cause was known, " the word of the Lord tried him," Psa. 105:19. But it is Jehovah who is with him, the governing God, not by His name God Almighty.
Note how far the trial of Joseph, limited by divine ordering from anything that should hinder it—intended to frustrate God's purpose—and apparently clean against it—and his righteous suffering in Egypt only just bring about the whole thing they seemed to frustrate; it was in the Egypt his brothers sold him to, and in the prison Potiphar put him in that led him to the butler and baker, which set him governor over all the land of Egypt. We cannot put God out of His way. It is better to trust him. How little they thought they were bringing about God's purpose they thought to set aside, still less that they were arranging a touching figure of the blessed Lord, the restoration of Israel after their repentance, and that He that they rejected should be the head of the heathen.