Joseph was a prime candidate for bitterness.
1. Joseph was a favored son until he was seventeen; suddenly he was deprived of every conceivable right or privilege serving as a slave until he was thirty (Genesis 37:2; 41:46).
2. His brothers rejected him and sold him into slavery (Genesis 37:28).
3. Potiphar put him in prison for a crime he did not commit (Genesis 39:20).
4. Pharoah’s cup bearer received help from Joseph then left him in prison to rot (Genesis 40:14-15, 23).
5. Throughout his stay in Egypt (93 years) he was subject to racial prejudice (Genesis 39:14, 17; 43:32).
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