40Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.


In Context

37 And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.

38 Have I therefore been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:

39 Neither did I show thee that which the beast had torn, I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me:

40 Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.

41 And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.

42 Unless the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Genesis 31:40 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:40[Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

31:40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:40Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:40Thus I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:40This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:40I have been thus: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.