Genesis 27:34

And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.

Ver. 34. He cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry.] Not for his sin, in selling the birthright; but for his loss, in missing the blessing: a though having sold the birthright, he had no right to the blessing. This is the guise of the ungodly. He cries, Perii; not Peccavi. If he "howl upon his bed," Hos 7:14 it is for corn and oil, as a dog tied up howls for his dinner: it never troubles him, that a good God is offended, which to an honest heart is the prime cause of greatest sorrow.

a Non dolet de peccato venditionis, sed de damno perditionis. - Par.