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As Laban found nothing, Jacob grew angry, and pointed out the injustice of his hot pursuit and his search among all his things, but more especially the harsh treatment he had received from him in return for the unselfish and self-denying services that he had rendered him for twenty years. Acute sensibility and elevated self-consciousness give to Jacob's words a rhythmical movement and a poetical form. Hence such expressions as אַחֲרֵי דָּלַק “hotly pursued,” which is only met with in 1Sa 17:53; אֲחַטֶּנָּה for אֲחַטְּאֶנָּה “I had to atone for it,” i.e., to bear the loss; “the Fear of Isaac,” used as a name for God, פַּחַד, σέβας = σέβασμα, the object of Isaac's fear or sacred awe.