3999. 'When you come [to look] over my wages that are before you' means what was His own. This is clear from the meaning of 'wages' when used in reference to the Lord, as what was His own, that is to say, what was acquired by His own power, dealt with above in 3975, 3977, 3982, 3996.

3996. 'And that will be my wages' means that it was the result of His own effort. This is clear from the meaning of 'wages' as that which was his, that is to say, Jacob's, because of the service he rendered. For these words mean that the Lord achieved it by His own power, or, what amounts to the same, it was the result of His own effort, see above in 3975, 3977, 3983.