Bible in Basic English
"This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes."
— Genesis 31:40, Bible in Basic English
“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.”
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?