You know that I have served your father with all my might and power.
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.
Jacob answered him, You know how I have served you, and how your possessions, your cattle and sheep and goats, have fared with me.
But your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
[You who are] household servants, be submissive to your masters with all [proper] respect, not only to those who are kind and considerate and reasonable, but also to those who are surly (overbearing, unjust, and crooked).