Genesis 31:7
World English Bible (WEB)
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
In context
5 and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
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, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
Genesis 31:7 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
- KJV King James Version
- And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- YLT Young's 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.