God never speaks in the Joseph story.

Joseph receives dreams, but the dreams require interpretation, and the interpretation requires Joseph to work it out himself, in a prison, among people who forget him the moment he is no longer useful to them. The pit is real. The slave traders are real. The prison is real. And through the betrayal by his brothers, the false accusation by Potiphar’s wife, and the cupbearer’s two-year silence after promising to remember, God says nothing.

This is the question the silence forces: where is God when His covenant servant is suffering unjustly, and why does He stay quiet?