And, behold, I [am] with thee
Though alone, at a distance from his father's house, no friend to
keep him company, or servant to attend him; but the presence of
God here promised is abundantly more than an equivalent for all
this: and will keep thee in all [places], whither thou
goest;
from beasts of prey, in lonesome places through which he might
travel; from thieves and robbers, to whom he might be exposed;
from his brother Esau, and all his ill designs against him; and
from being always under the bondage of Laban, into which he would
be brought: and will bring thee again into this
land:
the land of Canaan, which was entailed on him and his seed for an
inheritance; but, as he would now soon be out of it, and continue
in another land for many years, as he did, which would make it
look very unpromising that he and his seed should inherit it,
this is said unto him: for I will not leave thee, until I
have done [that] which I have
spoken to thee of;
made good all his promises to him: and the sense is, not that he
would then leave him when he had done so, but as not before, so
never after; for God never does, nor never will, utterly forsake
his people.