Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Is not he rightly named Jacob? - See note on Genesis 25:26.
He took away my birthright - So he might say with considerable propriety; for though he sold it to Jacob, yet as Jacob had taken advantage of his perishing situation, he considered the act as a species of robbery.
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