Genesis 31:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

New Living Translation
but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.

English Standard Version
yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.

Berean Study Bible
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

New American Standard Bible
Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to do me harm.

NASB 1995
"Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.

NASB 1977
“Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.

Amplified Bible
Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.

Christian Standard Bible
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages 10 times. But God has not let him harm me.

Contemporary English Version
and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.

Good News Translation
Yet he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your father has cheated me. He has changed my wages ten times. But God hasn't let him harm me.

International Standard Version
Even so, your father has cheated me. He broke our wage agreement ten times. However, God didn't allow him to harm me.

NET Bible
but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

New King James Version
Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

King James 2000 Bible
And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God permitted him not to hurt me.

New Heart English Bible
Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

World English Bible
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

American King James Version
And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

American Standard Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

A Faithful Version
Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me.

Darby Bible Translation
And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

English Revised Version
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times: but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But your father hath deceiued me, & changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And he hath disceaued me, and chaunged my wages now ten tymes. But God hath not suffred him, to do me harme.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And youre father hath disceaued me and chaunged my wages .x. tymes: But God suffred him not to hurte me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with me.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And your father has deceived me and has changed my wages ten times, and God did not allow him to do evil to me.

Lamsa Bible
And yet your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God has not permitted him to hurt me.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.
















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