 | Joseph Wolff - 1839 - 434 Seiten
...mornings and evenings, which reminds one of Jacob's complaint in Genesis xxxi. v. 40. " Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night." Rabbi Menahem, the most turbulent of the Jews, came quiie calm, and appeared impressed with the New... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - 1840 - 282 Seiten
...unto thee ; I bare the loss of it : of my hand didst thou require what was stolen by day or i night. In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and sleep departed from mine eyes. Yet hast thou changed my wages ten times. Except God had been with me,... | |
 | Thomas Brightwell - 1840 - 416 Seiten
...brethren, ie the neighbours whom Laban had brought with him. — Rosenm. 40. / was, ie in this condition. In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night. Whilst the heat is ardent during the day-time in the east, the cold of the night is piercing and dangerous,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1841 - 640 Seiten
...j of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus was I ; in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." Laban did not attempt to answer; but gave a change to the subject by saying, that although he considered... | |
 | 1848 - 800 Seiten
...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 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 Seiten
...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 the 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 Seiten
...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 from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters,... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 Seiten
...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 from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughteis, and... | |
 | 1843 - 912 Seiten
...it ; > of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was ; rael 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house : I served thee m fourteen years for thy two daughters,... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 Seiten
...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 the 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... | |
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Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 
