Genesis 31:40 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁰ Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine 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 of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

Proverbs 31:18

She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp goeth not out by night.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Haggai 1:11

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Luke 2:8

And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Hebrews 13:7

Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.