Charles Ellicott Commentary Genesis 49:27

"Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning she shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil." — Genesis 49:27 (ASV)

Benjamin. —With this description of their ancestor agrees the character of his race, which was the most spirited and warlike of all the tribes of Israel.

It would be interesting to compare the accounts of the several tribes in the subsequent history with Jacob’s blessing of their progenitors, and with that also given by Moses. The fathers, moreover, found in the words of the patriarch faint foreshadowings of the spiritual truths of Christianity. But such discussions exceed the limits of a commentary, and it has seemed best to give only the primary explanation of Jacob’s words, in accordance, as far as possible, with the standpoint of the patriarch himself.