Księga Ozeasza 12:3

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(12:4) Już w łonie matki przechytrzył swego brata, a w sile wieku zmagał się z Bogiem.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
W żywocie podchodził brata swego, a chodził za pasy z Bogiem.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jeszcze w żywocie za piętę dzierżył brata swego, a mocą swoją mężnie sobie poczynał z Bogiem.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Ale WIEKUISTY ma spór z Judą i chce nawiedzić Jakóba według jego dróg, według jego spraw mu odpłacić.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Jeszcze w żywocie za piętę dzierżył brata swego, a mocą swoją mężnie sobie poczynał z Bogiem.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jeszcze w łonie ujął on za piętę swego brata, a swoją siłą mężnie zmagał się z Bogiem.

Biblia Warszawska
Pan ma sporną sprawę z Izraelem, ukarze Jakuba za jego postępowanie; odpłaci mu według jego uczynków.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took: Genesis 25:26, Romans 9:11

had: etc. Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely, Genesis 32:24-28, James 5:16-18

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:10 - the angel Genesis 32:25 - that he Genesis 32:28 - power Joshua 5:13 - a man Judges 2:1 - And an angel Psalms 24:10 - The Lord Song of Solomon 3:4 - I held Isaiah 63:9 - the angel Zechariah 1:10 - the man Zechariah 12:8 - as the Zechariah 13:7 - the man Malachi 3:1 - even John 1:18 - he hath Acts 7:30 - an Philippians 2:6 - thought Colossians 2:1 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He took his brother by the heel in the womb,.... That is, Jacob took his brother Esau by the heel, as he came forth from his mother's womb; the history of it is in Genesis 25:25. It is here observed, upon mentioning the name of Jacob in Hosea 12:2, meaning the posterity, of the patriarch; but here he himself is intended, and occasionally taken notice of, to show how very different his posterity were from him, and how sadly degenerated; as well as to upbraid them with ingratitude, whose ancestors, and they also, had received such and so many favours from the Lord; Jacob the patriarch was a hero from the womb, but they transgressors from it; this action of his observed was a presage and pledge of his having the superiority of his brother, and of his getting the birthright and blessing from him. So the Targum,

"prophet, say unto them, was it not said of Jacob, before he was born, that he would be greater than his brother?''

see Romans 9:11. In this action there was something divine, miraculous, and preternatural; it was not the effort of nature merely, but contrary to it, or at least above it; and not done by chance, but ordered by the providence of God, as a prediction and testification of his future greatness, and even of his posterity's, in times yet to come, as Kimchi observes, who refers to Obadiah 1:18;

and by his strength he had power with God; the Targum is, with the angel, as in Hosea 12:4; he is called a man in the history of this event in Genesis 32:24; not that he was a mere man, since he is here expressly called God, and afterwards the Lord God of hosts; and there it is evident, from the context, he was a divine Person, and no other than the Son of God; who, though not as yet incarnate, appeared in a human form, as a presage of his future incarnation; though this was not a mere apparition, spectre, or phantasm, as Josephus t calls it; for it was not in a dream, or in a visionary way, that this wrestling and striving was between this divine Person in this form and Jacob, but in reality; it was a real substance which the Son of God formed, animated, actuated, and assumed, for that time and purpose, and then laid it aside; which touched Jacob, and he touched that, laid hold on it, and held it fast, and strove with it, and had power over it, and over God in it; even over him that is God over all, the true God and eternal life, the Lord Jesus Christ; not a created God, or God by office, but by nature; as the perfections that are in him, and the works and worship ascribed to him, declare: now Jacob had power over him "by his strength"; not by his natural strength; either of his body, which could not have been equal to the strength of this human body assumed for the time, as it was used and managed by a divine Person, unless he had been extraordinarily assisted and strengthened; or of his mind and soul, not by any spiritual strength he had of himself; but by what he had from this divine Person, with whom he wrestled; who put strength into him, and supported and increased the power and strength of faith in prayer; so that he prevailed over him, and got the blessing, for which reason his name was called Israel, Genesis 32:28.

t Antiqu. l. 1. c. 20. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He took his brother by the heel in the womb - Whether or no the act of Jacob was beyond the strength, ordinarily given to infants in the womb, the meaning of the act was beyond man’s wisdom to declare. Whence the Jews paraphrased , “Was it not predicted of your lather Jacob, before he was born, that he should become greater than his brother?” Yet this was not fulfilled until more than 500 years afterward, nor completely until the time of David. These gifts were promised to Jacob out of the free mercy of God, antecedent to all deserts. But Jacob, thus chosen without desert, showed forth the power of faith; “By his strength he had power with God.” : “The strength by which he did this, was God’s strength, as well as that by which God contended with him; yet it is well called his, as being by God given to him. “Yet he had power with God,” God so ordering it, that the strength which was in Jacob, should put itself forth with greater force, than that in the assumed body, whereby He so dealt with Jacob. God, as it were, bore the office of two persons, showing in Jacob more strength than He put forth in the Angel.” “By virtue of that faith in Jacob, it is related that God “could” not prevail against him. He could not because he would not overthrow his faith and constancy. By the touch in the hollow of his thigh, He but added strength to his faith, showing him who it was who wrestled with him, and that He willed to bless him.” For thereon Jacob said those words which have become a proverb of earnest supplication, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me, and, I have seen God, face to face, and my life is preserved” Genesis 32:26, Genesis 32:30. : “He was strengthened by the blessing of Him whom he overcame.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 12:3. He took his brother by the heel — See on Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:24, &c.