Cornered, Laban made the last argument of a man who cannot let go. The children whom thou hast received of thy wives are my children, and the children whom they may bear will be reputed as mine, and the sheep are my sheep and all that thou seest is mine (Genesis 31:43).
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan lets the absurdity stand uncorrected. Laban tried to claim everything. The grandchildren. The flocks. The tents. Even Jakob's wives, who had just testified that their father had sold them (Genesis 31:15). In Laban's self-portrait, nothing Jakob held was ever truly Jakob's.
And then the concession, almost tender, almost sad: And for my daughters what can I do this day, and for the sons which they have borne? He had run out of leverage. Even his own logic was deserting him. If the daughters and the grandsons really were his, why could he do nothing for them now?
The Maggid teaches: when a controlling man finally realizes he has lost, he often tries to claim everything one last time before admitting he holds none of it. Listen to that last inventory carefully. It is not ownership. It is grief disguised as ledger.