Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 32:4

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau, Thy servant Jacob saith thus; I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there untill now .

Which Title being but a civil respect commonly given in Scripture to such persons as have no authority nor superiority over them who use it, as Gen. 23. 6. and 24. 18. Iacob doth not hereby renounce his right of Primogeniture which was devolved upon him, nor return it to Esau. Nor if he did hereby acknowledge Esau his Superiour for the present, would this have been injurious to that right, because Iacob was not yet in actual possession of it, for it was not to commence till his Fathers death, and indeed did more belong to his posterity, than to his person, and as to his person, did more respect his spiritual advantages, then his worldly greatness. See Gen. 27. 29.

As a stranger and exile, and so a more proper object for thy pity, then for thy envy.