Genesis 25:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I am at the point to die; not with famine, which could not consist with Isaac's plentiful estate and house, but by the perpetual hazards to which his course of life exposed him in the pursuit of wild beasts, and contending with other men. What profit shall this birthright do to me? by which he plainly showeth that his care and affections reached no further than the present life.

Genesis 25:32

32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?