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Gen_31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
Ver. 9. Thus God hath taken away, &c.] He is the true proprietary, and gives and takes away these outward things at pleasure; as Hannah hath it. {1Sa_2:7} And, "promotion cometh neither from the east nor west," saith David; "nor yet from the south," {Psa_75:6} where the warm sunshine is: much less from the north (for, Ab Aquilone nihil boni); "but God is the judge; he puts down" Laban "and sets up" Jacob; {Psa_75:7} he spoiled the Egyptians, and enriched the Israelites with their jewels; {Exo_12:36} which yet proved a snare to them, perhaps, in the matter of the golden calf; as riches always do, when sent to men by God’s providence only, and not out of his favour, as here to Jacob, and by virtue of the promise.