Genesis 31:7
Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.
Cross References
Genesis 31:29It is in my power to return thee evil: but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any things harshly against Jacob.
Leviticus 26:26After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled.
Nehemiah 4:12And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,
Job 19:3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Psalms 37:28For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints : they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.
Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our reproach.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:2-17
Jacob's Departure. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 5 And said unto them, I see your father's… Read the whole commentary →