“Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.”
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the weariness of my hands, and last night he rebuked you. The theological climax of Jacob's defense is the divine witness: God has seen and God has rebuked. The application: the covenant defense ultimately rests on the divine witness, not the human accounting. God has seen; God has acted. The ultimate judge of twenty years of exploitation is not the human community but the covenant God.
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