“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”
Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's bed, onto my couch and defiled it. The loss of preeminence — turbulent as waters, you will no longer excel — is the consequence of the violation of Bilhah in Genesis 35:22. The application: the blessing that begins with acknowledgment of gift and ends with loss through unfaithfulness is the honest account of the life that wasted its inheritance.
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