And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Ver. 8. Pleased not Isaac his father.] Whether himself or they pleased God or not, was no part of his care. God is not in all the wicked man's thoughts. Psa 10:4 What he strives for is, to be well esteemed of by others, to have the good will and good word of his neighbours and friends, such especially as he hopes for benefit by. Thus Julian counterfeited zeal, till he had got the empire: afterwards, of Julian, he became Idolian, as Nazianzen saith he was commonly called, because he set open again the idols' temples, which had been shut up by Constantine, and restored them to the heathens.