Laban said to Jacob, “These women are my daughters. And these children belong to me. And these animals are mine. Everything you see here belongs to me. But I can do nothing to keep my daughters and their children.
But God is not against those people,
So I can’t speak against them either!
The Lord has not asked for bad things to happen to those people.
So I can’t do that either.
“The Lord will judge his people.
They are his servants,
and he will show them mercy.
He will see that their power is gone.
He will see that they are all helpless—
the slaves and free people, too.