Genesis 25:32 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Genesis 25:32 —

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Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Job 22:17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Exodus 22:9
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 29-34)

We have here a bargain made between Jacob and Esau about the birthright, which was Esau’s by providence but Jacob’s by promise. It was a spiritual privilege, including the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power, as well as the double portion, Gen. 49:3. It seemed to be such a birthright as had then the blessing annexed to it, and the entail of the promise. Now see, I. Jacob’s pious desi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 32)

32. Esau said ... I am at the point to die--that is, I am running daily risk of my life; and of what use will the birthright be to me: so he despised or cared little about it, in comparison with gratifying his appetite--he threw away his religious privileges for a trifle; and thence he is styled “a profane person” (He 12:16; also Job 31:7, 16; 6:13; Php 3:19). “There was never any meat, except the…