SEV Biblia, Chapter 31:29
Poder hay en mi mano para haceros mal; mas el Dios de vuestro padre me habló anoche diciendo: Guárdate que no digas a Jacob ni bueno ni malo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:29
Verse 29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt] Literally, My hand is unto God to do you evil, i.e., I have vowed to God that I will punish thee for thy flight, and the stealing of my teraphim; but the God of YOUR father has prevented me from doing it. It is a singular instance that the plural pronoun, when addressing an individual, should be twice used in this place-the God of your father, ľkyba abichem, for űyba abicha, thy father.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-35 - God can put a bridle in the mouth of wicked men, to restrain their malice, though he do not change their hearts. Though they have no love to God's people, they will pretend to it, and try to make a merit of necessity. Foolish Laban! to call those things his gods which could be stolen! Enemies may steal our goods, but not our God. Here Laban lay to Jacob's charge things that he knew not. Those who commit their caus to God, are not forbidden to plead it themselves with meekness an fear. When we read of Rachel's stealing her father's images, what scene of iniquity opens! The family of Nahor, who left the idolatrou Chaldees; is this family itself become idolatrous? It is even so. The truth seems to be, that they were like some in after-times, who swar by the Lord and by Malcham, Zep 1:5; and like others in our times, wh wish to serve both God and mammon. Great numbers will acknowledge the true God in words, but their hearts and houses are the abodes of spiritual idolatry. When a man gives himself up to covetousness, lik Laban, the world is his god; and he has only to reside among gros idolaters in order to become one, or at least a favourer of their abominations.
Original Hebrew
ישׁ 3426 לאל 410 ידי 3027 לעשׂות 6213 עמכם 5973 רע 7451 ואלהי 430 אביכם 1 אמשׁ 570 אמר 559 אלי 413 לאמר 559 השׁמר 8104 לך מדבר 1696 עם 5973 יעקב 3290 מטוב 2896 עד 5704 רע׃ 7451
