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.