Jacob responded, "You don't have to give me anything. Just do this for me: Let me tend your flock again and watch over it. Let me walk among your flocks today and remove every speckled or spotted sheep, along with every black lamb, and let me do the same with the speckled and spotted goats. These will be my wages.

"So separate the Israelis from their uncleanness so that they won't die in their uncleanness if they defile my tent that is in their midst.

I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat me without shame.

His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

News of one [terrible] disaster comes close after another,
For the whole land is devastated;
Suddenly my tents are spoiled and destroyed,
My [tent] curtains [ruined] in a moment.

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life.

knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.