^{38 Ref} `These twenty years I `am' with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten;

^{39 Ref} the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

^{40 Ref} I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.