Genesis 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
The verse is Jacob's own answer to Laban, summing up his time as twenty years in Laban's house. Those twenty years divide into fourteen years served for his two daughters and six years served for his cattle or flocks.
He describes that service as faithful shepherd labor in which he endured burning heat by day and freezing cold by night with sleep gone from his eyes. He tended and cared for and sympathized with and protected the sheep to the utmost of his power even though some were lost. As a temporal shepherd he tenderly cared for the suffering and sick and wounded. He charges that Laban changed his wages ten times, which was unjust treatment by a greedy and selfish master who wronged and defrauded him during his exile.
The complaint belongs to the moment when Laban had benefited from Jacob's work but had grown envious as Jacob prospered. Jacob feared that Laban's sons might seize his wealth, leading him to seek to return to Canaan. He declares that except the God of his father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had been with him, Laban would have sent him away empty. For God had seen his affliction and hardship and the labor of his hands and had rebuked Laban the night before.
His suffering under Laban was part of the harvest of his own earlier fraud against Esau. The evils of his character later appeared in his sons as well. His care as a temporal shepherd points beyond itself to Christ the Great Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep. Christ watches over His people with far greater watchcare and far more intimate personal interest.