Genesis 31:40

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes.

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  • Exod 2:19-22 : 19 And they aunswered: A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs water, and watered the sheepe. 20 He saide vnto his daughters: & where is he? why haue ye so left the man? Call hym, that he may eate bread. 21 And Moyses was content to dwell with the man: & he gaue Moyses Sephora his daughter: 22 Which bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: For he saide, I haue ben a straunger in a straunge land.
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.
  • Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes. 71 As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
  • Luke 2:8 : 8 There were in ye same countrey sheepheardes, abydyng in the fielde, & watchyng their flocke by nyght.
  • John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had dyned, Iesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon Ioanna, louest thou me more then these? He sayd vnto hym: Yea Lorde, thou knowest that I loue thee. He sayth vnto hym: feede my lambes. 16 He sayth to hym agayne the seconde tyme: Simon Ioanna, louest thou me? He sayth vnto hym: Yea Lorde, thou knowest that I loue thee. He sayde vnto hym: feede my sheepe. 17 He sayde vnto hym the thirde tyme: Simon Ioanna, louest thou me? Peter was sory, because he sayde vnto hym the thirde tyme, louest thou me: And he sayde vnto hym, Lorde thou knowest all thynges, thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus sayth vnto hym: feede my sheepe.
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember them which haue the ouersyght of you, which haue spoken vnto you the worde of God: Whose ende of conuersation ye consideryng, folowe their fayth.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 Feede you God his flocke, whiche is committed vnto you, takyng the ouersight of them not as compelled therto, but wyllyngly, not for the desyre of fylthy lucre, but of a good mynde: 3 Not as though ye were Lordes ouer God his heritage: but that ye be an ensample to the flocke. 4 And when the chiefe shephearde shall appeare, ye shall receaue an incorruptible crowne of glory.

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    38Behold, this twentie yere haue I ben with thee, thy sheepe and thy goates haue not ben barren, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

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  • Gen 31:41-42
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    41Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.

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  • Ps 32:3-4
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    3For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring.

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  • Job 30:16-17
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    16Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me.

    17My bones are pearsed through in the night season, and my sinewes take no rest.

  • Job 7:3-4
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    3Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

    4When I layde me downe to sleepe, I sayde, O when shall I arise? and measuring the euening, I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.

  • Jer 31:26
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    26When I hearde this, I came agayne to my selfe, I sawe like as I had ben waked out of a sweete sleepe.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12Myne age is folden together & taken away from me lyke a sheepheardes cotage, I haue hewen of my lyfe by my sinnes, lyke as a weauer cutteth of his webbe: He wyll with pinyng sicknesse make an ende of me, yea he wyll make an ende of me in one day.

    13I thought I woulde haue lyued vntyll the morowe, but he brused my bones lyke a lion: and in one day thou wylt make an ende of me.

  • Ps 132:4
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    4I wyll not suffer myne eyes to slepe: nor myne eye liddes to slumber.

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt:

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  • Ps 6:6-7
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    6I am weerie of my groning: I washe my bed euery nyght, and I water my coutche with my teares.

    7Mine eye is almost put out through griefe: and worne out through all mine enemies.

  • Ps 77:2
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    2In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort.

  • Ps 39:10
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    10Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.

  • Job 29:19
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    19For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • Job 31:19-20
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    19If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:

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    10For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified.

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    2I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased.

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    30My skinne vpon me is turned to blacke, and my bones are brent with heate.

  • Job 16:7
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    7But now that God hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.

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    15My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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    7But your father hath deceaued me, and chaunged my wages ten tymes: but God suffred hym not to hurt me.

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    12Yea a fire that vtterly should consume and roote out all my increase.

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    28I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them.

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    19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

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    15In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,

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