afraid] Guiltie persons are very timerous, and easily take a fright even at that which is done in favour, if it be strange and beyond expectation. See Leviticus 26:36. that God hath done unto us] Because their consciences accused them of sinne, they thought God would have brought them to trouble by this money; Though they were most of them very faultie towards Joseph, and otherwise wicked, yet they rightly apprehended that punishment was the reward of sinne, and God the author of that punishment, and the disposer of that matter by his providence, which reacheth even to the smallest matters, Matthew 10:29.