86 Preface قالَ إِنَّما أَشكو بَثّي وَحُزني إِلَى اللَّهِ وَأَعلَمُ مِنَ اللَّهِ ما لا تَعلَمونَYusuf AliHe said: “I only complain1 of my distraction and anguish to God, and I know from God2 that which ye know not...Jacob’s plaint to God is about himself, not about God’s doings. He bewails the distraction of his mind and his occasional breaking out of those bounds of patience which he had set for himself.He knew of God’s merciful and beneficent dealings with man in a way his shallow sons did not. And his perfect faith in God also told him that all would be well. He never gave up hope for Joseph, as his directions in the next verse show. They may be supposed to have been spoken after a little silence of grief and thought. That silence I have indicated in punctuation by three dots.