Genesis 25:32 - Revised Standard Version CI

³² Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³² Esau said, “Since I’m going to die anyway, what good is my birthright to me?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² He answered, "Lo, I am dying, what will the right of the firstborn provide for me?"

Genesis 25:32 Cross References

Genesis 25:31

Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

Genesis 25:33

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Genesis 27:36

Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

Exodus 22:9

“For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?