wrestlings

Is that what the "wrestlings" in verse 8 refer to?

Genesis 30 2004

The Gaffer began to intercede for him silently; but experience had taught him that such "wrestlings," to be effective, must be noisy, and he dropped off to sleep with a sense of failure ...

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

When the thermometer drops, man ceases -- with all his lusts and wrestlings and achievements; with all his race-adventures and race-tragedies; and with all his red killings, billions upon billions of human lives multiplied by as many billions more.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

I could weep now as I recollect my wrestlings with it.

Chapter 23 2010

Old fights and wrestlings have injured them irreparably.

Chapter 36 2010

I could weep now as I recollect my wrestlings with it.

THE BRAIN MERCHANT 2010

Sometimes the wrestlings and complexities of a heart are hard to express and words are not easy to birth.

Where Rubber Meets the Road Belinda 2009

Her wrestlings with her own unruly self gave her an intense insight into human nature which shines in her novels.

Eden's Outcasts elena maria vidal 2009

She calls him Naphtali, which means “I have prevailed,” because she has “prevailed” (Hebrew niftalti) over her sister in a divine contest (Hebrew naftulei Elohim; NRSV, “mighty wrestlings”).

Bilhah: Bible. 2009

Peniel at some d i s t a n t Peniel face to face dimmed by shadows to our present sight we perhaps shall come to see after dark and muttered wrestlings the riddle faith has heard our syntax and letters reordering with the WORD's splendor's shining to lay bare the Enigma of Ages

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