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Genesis 31:7
and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
Genesis 31:7 · Young's Literal Translation
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Genesis 31:7 in other translations
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
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In context
4 And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;
5 and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face--that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,
6 and ye--ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,
7 and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
8 `If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-streaked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-streaked;
9 and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
10 `And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, are ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled;
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