^{38 Ref} These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

^{39 Ref} That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

^{40 Ref} Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.