Hebrews 12:17

Hebrews 12:17. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

He could not get his father to change his mind concerning Jacob; on the contrary, he said, "I have blessed him; yea, and he shall be blessed." His many tears availed not, they were not repenting tears, but only selfish ones. He did not repent that he had bartered his birthright for a mess of pottage; he regretted that he had lost the blessing, that was all.