The servant keeps circling this moment. He circles it because he cannot get over it. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 24:45 has him tell Laban's household: "I had not yet finished speaking in the thoughts of my heart, when, behold, Rivekah came forth with the pitcher upon her shoulder."

Note what the Targum adds: in the thoughts of my heart. The servant was not even praying aloud. His mouth did not move. His lips did not form syllables. The petition was still an inner murmur, still being composed in the quiet room of his chest — and Rivekah was already on her way.

This detail cracks open a theology the prophet Isaiah would later write into verse: "Before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear" (Isaiah 65:24). In the Targum's imagination, that verse has its first fulfillment at a well in Aram. God does not wait for the prayer to be articulate. God hears the draft.

For anyone who has ever been embarrassed by their own imperfect prayers — too scattered, too desperate, too half-formed — the servant's testimony is medicine. He was not a master of petition. He was a tired man muttering in his own head. And the answer walked into view with a clay jug.

The Targum is not telling us that every unspoken wish gets fulfilled. It is telling us that the ear of heaven is tuned to the frequency of faithful intention, and intention does not need grammar. The servant's heart-thought was enough, because the heart was on the right road.