American Standard Version
"Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. "
— Genesis 31:40, American Standard Version
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed 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 thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two.
These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou 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 fled from mine eyes.
These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast 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 now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne?