Genesis 31:40 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 31:40

38 These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

39 ^aThat which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. ^bYou required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

40 There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

41 Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I ^aserved you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and ^byou have changed my wages ten times.

42 ^aUnless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and ^bthe Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^cGod has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and ^drebuked you last night.”

Laban’s Covenant with Jacob

43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

Verse Comparison: Genesis 31:40

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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.

Amplified® Bible
This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.

Contemporary English Version
I sweated every day, and I couldn't sleep at night because of the cold.

Darby English Version
Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

Good News Bible
Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.

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.

New American Standard Bible
"{Thus} I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

New International Version
This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

New King James Version
There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Thus I found: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Revised Standard Version
Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Young's Literal Translation
I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

New English Translation
I was consumed by scorching heat¹ during the day and by piercing cold² at night, and I went without sleep.³

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