38. ‘I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
39. I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night.
40. This was my situation: the heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.