American Standard Version
"And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. "
— Genesis 31:7, American Standard Version
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”
“Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.”
“but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.”
“Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.”
“But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.”
“And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.”
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
and said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.