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Gen_27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it].
Ver. 5. Esau went to the field to hunt, &c.] But before he returned, the blessing was otherwise bestowed. "The hope of the hypocrite shall perish". {Job_8:13} How many lie languishing at hope’s hospital, as he at the pool of Bethesda, and no help comes! They repair to the creatures, as to a lottery, with heads full of hopes, but return with hearts full of blanks. Or, if they draw nigh to God, they think they take hold of him; but it is but as the child that catcheth at the shadow or the wall, which he thinks he holds fast in his hand; but it vanisheth. The common hope is ill bottomed. "Hope unfailable," {Rom_5:5} is founded upon "faith unfeigned". {1Ti_1:5} Deo confisi nunquam confusi. He sneaketh sweetest comfort "to the heart, in the wilderness". {Hos_2:14}