John Calvin Commentary Genesis 31:16

"For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children`s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do." — Genesis 31:16 (ASV)

For all the riches which God has taken from our father. Rachel and Leah confirm the speech of Jacob; yet in a profane and common manner, not with a lively and pure sense of religion. For they only make a passing allusion to the fact that God, in pity for his servant, had condescended to honor him with special favor; and in the meantime, they insist upon a reason with little substance: that what they were carrying away was justly their due, because a part of the inheritance belonged to them.

They do not argue that the riches they possessed were theirs because they had been justly acquired by their husband's labor, but because they themselves should not have been defrauded of their dowry and now deprived of their lawful inheritance. For this reason, they also mention their children along with themselves, as having descended from Laban.

By this method, they not only obscure God's blessing but also indulge themselves in greater license than is right. They also undervalue their husband’s labors, boasting that the fruit of those labors came from themselves. Therefore, we are by no means to seek from this a precedent for the way in which one is to defend one's own right, or to attempt its recovery when it has been unjustly taken from one.