Indeed, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
Mays, whose critical comment on this passage denied the validity of Jacob's weeping, as mentioned here, wrote: "The weeping is possibly Hosea's embellishment; the Genesis story knows nothing of it."[9]  Aside from the uncertain placement of the expression "he wept" which might very well have been Hosea's allusion to the weeping that Jacob was said to have done upon that very same day and in connection with that very event  (Genesis 33:4), the matter of Hosea's inspiration should also be considered, making the information (if it pertains here) to be supplementary to the Genesis account.