Gen 31:50 | CPDV | STEP | If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.”

Genesis 31:50

50 If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.” ^{▼▼31:50The verb ‘respicit’ does not merely mean ‘to see.’ It means to see and understand, or to look with the intention of understanding. And the word ‘praesens’ is the word ‘sens’ (a form of the verb ‘to be’) and the prefix ‘prae’ which means ‘before.’ As a phrase taken as a whole, and in this context, ‘præsens respicit’ means to understand beforehand.(Conte)}