Genesis 31:36

And Jacob was wroth, &c.— Nothing can be imagined more exquisite than this apology of Jacob to Laban; nothing more descriptive of the painful and careful life of a shepherd, Luke 2:8.; and nothing, one would imagine, could be more affecting to the heart of Laban, than truths thus ardently and pathetically delivered. Honesty, fidelity, and unwearied assiduity, may be discountenanced by barbarous churls like Laban; but God, who seeth, i.e.. regards and relieves the affliction of those who trust in him, will sooner or later reward them. See ch. Genesis 16:13.Exodus 3:7; Exodus 3:9.