Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from the LORD: we cannot speak unto you bad or good.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Laban is placed before his father, having perhaps the administration of affairs in Bathuel's old age; and he had first introduced the stranger. (Menochius)
Then, since God was conducting everything in the wake of the patriarch’s prayers, the maiden’s father and brother said to him, “This thing has come from the Lord; we cannot deny you, for good or ill.” Your account shows the whole thing has happened by God’s arrangement. So don’t think we oppose the decisions of God; after all, it is beyond our powers to do it. Here, the maid is in your hands; “take her, and be on your way, and she will be wife to your master’s son, as the Lord has said.”
