Kejadian 31:40-42

31:40 I was consumed by scorching heat ¹  during the day and by piercing cold ²  at night, and I went without sleep. ³  31:41 This was my lot ⁴  for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave ⁵  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 ⁶  – 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, ⁷  and he rebuked you last night.”

[31:40]  ¹ tn Or “by drought.”

[31:40]  ² tn Heb “frost, ice,” though when contrasted with the חֹרֶב (khorev, “drought, parching heat”) of the day, “piercing cold” is more appropriate as a contrast.

[31:40]  ³ tn Heb “and my sleep fled from my eyes.”

[31:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “this to me.”

[31:41]  ⁵ tn Heb “served you,” but in this accusatory context the meaning is more “worked like a slave.”

[31:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “the fear of Isaac,” that is, the one whom Isaac feared and respected. For further discussion of this title see M. Malul, “More on pahad yitschaq (Gen. 31:42,53) and the Oath by the Thigh,” VT 35 (1985): 192-200.

[31:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “My oppression and the work of my hands God saw.”