^{38 Ref} These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

^{39 Ref} Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

^{40 Ref} This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.