“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
This was my situation: the heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. The physical description of twenty years of shepherding — heat, cold, sleeplessness — is the embodied record of labor. The application: the physical cost of faithful labor over years is a legitimate element of any accounting. Jacob names what it cost him in his body.
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