7yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.


In Context

4 So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

5 He said to them, "I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.

6 You know that I've worked for your father with all my strength,

7 yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

8 If he said, 'The speckled ones will be your wages,' then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, 'The streaked ones will be your wages,' then all the flocks bore streaked young.

9 So God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:7Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:7and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:7And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.