40 I was in the day consumed with heat, and with frost in the night, and my [a]sleep departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thine house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the [b]fear of Isaac had been with me, surely thou haddest sent me away now empty: but God beheld my tribulation, and the labor of mine hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 31:40 Or, I slept not.
  2. Genesis 31:42 That is, the God whom Isaac did fear, and reverence.

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