“But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.”
But if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. The strategic selection means that Jacob's herd receives the strongest animals while Laban's receives the weaker ones. What Laban arranged to prevent — Jacob building a strong herd — is happening anyway, through Jacob's careful management of the arrangement. The application: the human opposition to God's covenant provision for his people consistently fails to prevent that provision.
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