John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister ,.... Or, "with the wrestlings of God" F1 נפתולי אלהים "luctationibus Dei", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cartwright. , wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petitions to him, that she might have children as well as her sister: some render it, "I used the craftinesses of God", or "great craftiness with my sisters" F2 "Calliditatibus Dei, Oleaster, astutiis Dei",... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 30:1-13
We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is, I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel (Gen. 30:1, 2), occasioned, not so much by her own barrenness as by her sister's fruitfulness. Rebekah, the only wife of Isaac, was long childless, and yet we find no uneasiness between her and Isaac; but here, because Leah bears children, Rachel cannot live peaceably with Jacob. 1. Rachel frets. She envied her sister, Gen. 30:1. Envy is... read more