Genesis 40-42

There are two questions recorded in this passage that caught my attention and got me thinking.
The first is asked by Joseph in 40:7. He addressed the cupbearer and baker and asked, "Why are your faces dowbcast today?" I think that my mouth would have hung open. I wanted to shout; "The're in prison!!! Why wouldn't the faces be downcast everyday!!" But that wasn't the response from these two political prisoners. It was the dreams that we're making their miserable lives unbearable. Joseph was able to lift that burden by listening to God and giving them an interpretation.
The second is in 42:28 when the 9 fearful brothers looked at each other and asked, "What is this that God has done to us?" For more than twenty years they have been arguing over what they did to Joseph. It seems that whenever anything ill appeared in their lives Reuben would bring up Joseph. The eldest brother may have carried the heaviest guilt because he had been unable to rescue Joseph. Now, they stood around looking at the grain they had "stolen" wondering what evil was in store for them. But they were unaware that God was working to restore Israel's family and to save them from the famine.
It took me about 14 minutes to read this passage.
Stuart