American King James Version
"Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes. "
— Genesis 31:40, American King James Version
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. ”
“This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.”
“I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.”
“Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.”
“This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.”
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
Whereas you have searched all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? set it here before my brothers and your brothers, that they may judge between us both.
This twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.
That which was torn of beasts I brought not to you; I bore the loss of it; of my hand did you require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your cattle: and you have changed my wages ten times.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you had sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night. ¶
And Laban answered and said to Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children which they have born?