Genesis 27:36 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Is not he rightly named Jacob— i.e.. A supplanter. There is something very affecting in this scene between Esau (who was now, as Le Clerc computes, past his seventieth year) and his blind and aged parent. But his instant accusation of Jacob for taking away his birth-right, when he parted with it so freely and so profanely, gives one no high idea of his character, unless perhaps the petulance of sorrow may be allowed to plead a little for him. See Hebrews 12:17 where you read, that though Esau sought the blessing with tears, he could not gain it, for he found no means to change his father's mind, to induce him to repent of bestowing it on Jacob. This, and not what is read in our version, is the true sense of the passage.