Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
New American Standard Bible
Yet your father has
King James Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Holman Bible
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages 10 times. But God has not let him harm me.
International Standard Version
Even so, your father has cheated me. He broke our wage agreement ten times. However, God didn't allow him to harm me.
A Conservative Version
And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
American Standard Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Amplified
Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.
Bible in Basic English
But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.
Darby Translation
And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Julia Smith Translation
And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me.
King James 2000
And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God permitted him not to hurt me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.
Modern King James verseion
and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.
NET Bible
but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
New Heart English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
The Emphasized Bible
But, your father, hath deceived me, and hath changed my wages ton times, - yet God hath not suffered him to deal harmfully with me.
Webster
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Youngs Literal Translation
and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
Themes
Business life » Employers » bad examples
Business life » Employers » Bad
Covetousness » Instances of » Laban » In deceiving jacob in wages
Father-in-law » Unjust, laban to jacob
Husbands' » Duty of, to wives » To consult with them
Ingratitude » Exemplified » Laban
Master » Unjust master, instances of » Laban to jacob
Masters' » Duty of, toward servants » Not to defraud them
Servants » When good » Are protected by God
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 31:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Flees From Laban
6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. 7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me. 8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
Cross References
Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
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.
Numbers 14:22
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
Nehemiah 4:12
It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."
Psalm 37:28
For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Zechariah 8:23
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Job 1:10
Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job 19:3
You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
Job 19:8
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Psalm 105:14-15
He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Isaiah 4:1
Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me," says Yahweh.