31:36 Jacob became angry 1 and argued with Laban. “What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban. 2 “What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit? 3 31:37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? 4 Set it here before my relatives and yours, 5 and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! 6
31:38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. 31:39 Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. 7 You always made me pay for every missing animal, 8 whether it was taken by day or at night. 31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat 9 during the day and by piercing cold 10 at night, and I went without sleep. 11 31:41 This was my lot 12 for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave 13 for you – fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times! 31:42 If the God of my father – the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears 14 – had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, 15 and he rebuked you last night.”