Genesis 31:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ The dry heat consumed me during the day, and the frost at night; I couldn’t sleep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ Day and night, I was burned by heat and by frost, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 31:40 Cross References

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Exodus 3:1

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

Proverbs 31:18

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

Haggai 1:11

And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the soil produces, on humans and animals, and on all their labors.”

Luke 2:8

Now in that same region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.