Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
World English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him 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 And you know that with all my power I have served your father, 7 and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me. 8 If he said this, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said this, The striped shall be your hire, then all the flocks bore striped.
Cross References
Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob.
Genesis 31:41
And I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six for your flocks. And you have changed my wages ten times.
Numbers 14:22
Because all those men who have seen My glory and My miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,
Nehemiah 4:12
And it happened when the Jews who lived near them came in, they said to us ten times, From all places where you shall turn to us, they will be against us.
Psalm 37:28
For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Zechariah 8:23
So says Jehovah of Hosts: In those days ten men, out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the sincerity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
Leviticus 26:26
When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.
Job 1:10
Have You not 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 livestock have increased in the land.
Job 19:3
And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
Job 19:8
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
Psalm 105:14-15
He allowed no man to do them wrong; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes,
Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; only let us be called by your name, to take away our shame.
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you shall be blessed; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness is from Me, says Jehovah.