 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee, I bare the loss of it : of my hand didst thou require...frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and... | |
 | 1848 - 800 pages
...and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ; I bare the loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require...frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house : I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1842 - 306 pages
...comforts and conveniences of life ; they may in a degree adopt towards us, the language of Jacob to Laban, "thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and...frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes:" they watch around our languishing beds in sickness; share in our misfortunes, weep over us when we... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...the rams of thy flock nave I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ; I bare the loss of it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Tlnts I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed... | |
 | 1874 - 590 pages
...Mny you be as vigilant and y faithful, as the patriarch Jacob, when he kept the flock of Laban — " Thus I was : in the day the drought consumed me, and...by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." (Gen.xxxi.40.) The care you take of the flock must be shown by a kind and jealous watchfulness and... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...present usages of trie East, as narrated by Roberts. Thus " in Jacob's complaint to Laban, h<: says, ' Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and...frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.' (Gen. 31. 40.) In India, does a master reprove his servant for being idle, he will ask, ' What can... | |
 | 1843 - 912 pages
...the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts, I brought not unto thee ; inst this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a * desolation and a ' c 40 Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 pages
...it ; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was,in the University Press 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house : I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters,... | |
 | Henry Blunt - 1844 - 368 pages
...while the following is the affecting record which he leaves of this period of his troubled life : " Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and...frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." " Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Except the... | |
 | 1844 - 546 pages
...Jacob was Laban's servant, and we have his own account of the character and period of his servitude. " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house." Gen. xxxi. 40, 41. Joseph was a carpenter.—Matt. xiii.... | |
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That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee : I bare the loss of it : of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed... 
