Genesis 32:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He has recourse to God in his distress by prayer, the only effectual means of obtaining relief in trouble. And surely a finer model of genuine prayer can hardly be met with or imagined. It was evidently dictated by the feelings of his heart in this trying season. He addressed himself to God as the God of his fathers, not presuming to call him his own God, because of the sense he had of his unworthiness. O God of my father Abraham, and father Isaac This he could better plead, because the government was entailed upon him. Thou saidst, Return unto thy country He had not rashly left his place with Laban; but in obedience to God's command.