40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
37 Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.
38 "I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.
40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you."
31:40[Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
31:40Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.
31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
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.
31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
31:40Thus I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
31:40This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
31:40I have been thus: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.
31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.