There is a class of moment in the Torah where even the schemers have to stop scheming. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 24:50 captures one. After Eliezer finishes his story, Laban and Bethuel answer together: "The thing hath come forth from before the Lord that Rivekah should be given to Isaac, and we cannot say to thee either evil or good."
It is almost a surrender. The Aramaic phrase — min kodam Adonai, "from before the Lord" — was the formula the Targum used when human beings ran out of objections. When something is decreed from before the Lord, you do not negotiate. You witness.
The brother is Laban, whom the Torah will later reveal as a tireless manipulator. The father is Bethuel, whom Pseudo-Jonathan will shortly kill by his own poisoned dinner. These are not pious men. And yet even they can see that the sequence of the day — the prayer, the camels, the jewelry, the lineage — does not admit ordinary interpretation.
Notice the Targum's careful phrasing: "we cannot say to thee either evil or good." Laban and Bethuel are not giving a blessing. They are giving a clearance. They are admitting they have no standing to obstruct what God has arranged. It is one of the few moments in their lives where they get out of the way.
This is the lesson. There are decisions in a life that are not yours to make. When the hand of Heaven is visibly on a matter, the righteous answer is not enthusiasm — it is simply not to interfere. Laban and Bethuel, for one verse, manage it.