Joseph and Asenath 6

1And when Asenath saw Joseph she was sore pricked in the soul and her heart was crushed, and her knees were loosed and her whole body trembled and she feared with great fear, and then she groaned and said in her heart: "Alas me miserable! where now shall I, the wretched one, go away? or where shall I be hidden from his face? or how shall Joseph the son of God see me, for that on my part I have spoken evil things about him?

2Alas me miserable! whither shall I go away and be hidden, because he himself seeth every hiding-place, and knoweth all things, and no hidden thing escapeth him by reason of the great light that is in him?

3And now may the God of Joseph be gracious to me because in ignorance I have spoken wicked words against him.

4What now shall I, the wretched one, follow?

5Have I not said: 'Joseph cometh, the son of the shepherd from the land of Canaan'?

6Now therefore he hath come to us in his chariot as the sun from heaven, and he entered our house to-day, and he shineth into it like light upon the earth.

7But I am foolish and bold, because I scorned him and spake evil words about him and did not know that Joseph is a son of God.

8For who among men will ever beget such beauty, or what womb of woman will give birth to such light?

9Wretched am I and foolish, because I have spoken evil words to my father.

10Now, therefore, let my father give me to Joseph for an handmaid and a bondwoman rather, and I will be in bondage to him for ever."