Midrash su Genesi 28:8

(Gen. 28:10:) AND JACOB SET OUT. This text is related (to Prov. 12:15): THE WAY OF A FOOL IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. This refers to Esau the Wicked, according to what is written above (in Gen. 28:8f): NOW ESAU SAW THAT THE DAUGHTERS OF CANAAN WERE EVIL…. SO ESAU SET OUT UNTO ISHMAEL < AND TOOK FOR A WIFE MAHALATH THE DAUGHTER OF ISHMAEL >…. He heaped trouble upon trouble. (Prov. 12:15, cont.:) BUT A WISE MAN LISTENS TO ADVICE. This refers to Jacob.¹Gen. R. 67:12. Thus it is stated (in Gen. 27:42): NOW IT WAS REPORTED TO REBEKAH ABOUT THE WORDS OF HER ELDER SON ESAU (i.e., about his scheming). < SO, HAVING SENT AND CALLED FOR YOUNGER SON JACOB, SHE SAID UNTO HIM: LOOK AT YOUR BROTHER ESAU. HE IS TAKING COMFORT >…. When was he taking comfort? When he would have killed you (Jacob), as stated (ibid., cont.): HE IS TAKING COMFORT < IN SCHEMING > AGAINST YOU TO KILL YOU. (Gen. 27:43:) SO NOW, MY SON, HEED MY VOICE. What is the meaning of SO NOW, MY SON? She said to him: Yesterday you heeded me and received the blessings; now heed me in order to remain alive. He said to her: But is that the proper way? For me to set out without Daddy's knowledge? If he also tells me, I will do so. Immediately (we read in Gen. 28:1f.): SO ISAAC CALLED JACOB AND BLESSED HIM…. ARISE AND GO TO PADDAN-ARAM…. As soon as he heard that, he said to him: Give me an exiterion {i.e., travel instructions}.²The Greek word means “departing blessing.” He said to him (in vs. 3): MAY GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU. Immediately (we read in vs. 7): SO JACOB HEEDED HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND WENT TO PADDAN-ARAM…. (Gen. 28:10:) AND JACOB SET OUT. Ergo (in Prov. 12:15, cont.): BUT A WISE MAN LISTENS TO ADVICE.

“Haman saw that Mordekhai was not bowing and prostrating himself to him and Haman was filled with wrath” (Esther 3:5).
“Haman saw that Mordekhai was not bowing and prostrating himself to him” – Rabbi Aivu said: “May their eyes,” of the wicked, “grow dim so they cannot see” (Psalms 69:24). Because the sight of the eyes of the wicked takes them down to Gehenna; that is what is written: “The children of the great saw the daughters of man”⁵The children of the great sinned in doing so. See the following verses. (Genesis 6:2); “Ham, father of Canaan, saw [the nakedness of his father] (Genesis 9:22); “Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were objectionable [in the eyes of Isaac his father]”⁶Esau had previously married two women from Canaan. (Genesis 28:8); “Balak son of Tzippor saw [all that Israel had done to the Emorites]”⁷He subsequently hired Bilam to curse them. (Numbers 22:2); “Bilam saw that it was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord to bless Israel,”⁸Despite his efforts to curse them. (Numbers 24:1); “Haman saw that Mordekhai was not bowing and prostrating himself to him.”
However, the sight of the eyes of the righteous brings light, as the sight of the eyes of the righteous elevates them to the highest heights; that is what is written: “He [Abraham] lifted his eyes and saw, and behold, three men” (Genesis 18:2); “He [Abraham] saw, and behold, a ram” (Genesis 22:13); “He [Jacob] saw, and behold, a well in the field” (Genesis 29:2); “He [Moses] saw, and behold, a bush” (Exodus 3:2); “Pinḥas saw”⁹He saw the Israelites sinning with the daughters of Midyan and arose to put a stop to it. (Numbers 25:7). Therefore, they are happy with the sight of their eyes, as it is stated: “The upright see this and rejoice” (Psalms 107:42).

And Eliphaz, Esau’s son, was a swift man, an expert with the bow, as his father had taught him, ‎and also in the chase, and a valiant hero.‎‏ ‏And Eliphaz did as he was ordered by his father; and ‎Eliphaz was only thirteen years of age at that time. And Eliphaz arose and took along with him ‎ten of the brothers of his mother, and hurried after Jacob. And he kept close to Jacob, and he ‎lay in wait for him at the boundary of Canaan, opposite the city of Shechem. And when Jacob ‎saw Eliphaz and his men following him, Jacob halted in his way to ascertain what this meant, ‎for he knew nothing about it. But Eliphaz drew his sword and advanced towards Jacob with his ‎men. And Jacob said unto them: What is the cause of your coming hither, and for what reason ‎do you follow me with your naked swords? And Eliphaz approached him, saying: Thus hath my ‎father instructed me to do, and neither shall I depart from the orders which my father hath ‎given me. And when Jacob heard that Esau had spoken unto Eliphaz to use all his force, Jacob ‎came near unto them and entreated Eliphaz and his men, saying: Behold, here is all that I have, ‎and which was given me by my father and mother, take all this and leave me and do not kill ‎me, and may this deed be accounted unto thee a righteousness. And the Lord caused Jacob to ‎find favor in the eyes of Eliphaz and his men, and they listened to the voice of Jacob, and they ‎did not slay him. And Eliphaz and his men took away all that Jacob had, as also the silver and ‎gold that he had brought from Beersheba; they did not leave him the least thing. And Eliphaz ‎went away with his men, and they returned to Esau, to Beersheba, and they informed him of ‎all that had happened unto them with Jacob, and they delivered to him all that they had taken ‎from Jacob. And Esau was very wroth at Eliphaz, his son, and at the men that were with him, ‎for failing to slay Jacob. And they excused themselves, saying: Because Jacob entreated us not ‎to slay him, and our compassion was aroused in his behalf, hence we took of him all he had ‎and brought it unto thee. And Esau took all the silver and gold which Eliphaz had taken from ‎Jacob and stored it away in his house. And when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and ‎that he gave him a charge, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; and ‎seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac, his father, and Rebekah, his mother, ‎then went Esau unto Ishmael and took above the wives which he had, Mahalath, the daughter ‎of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to wife.

And his sons carried him to the cave of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought from the sons ‎of Heth as a possession of a burial place. And all the kings of the land of Canaan went along ‎with Jacob and Esau to bury Isaac. And all the kings of the land of Canaan showed great honors ‎unto Isaac when he died. And the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau went around barefooted, ‎going around, crying and lamenting until they reached, Kerjath-arba. And Jacob and Esau ‎buried their father Isaac in the cave of Machpelah, in Hebron, amidst exceedingly great honors ‎according to the funerals of kings. And Jacob with his sons and Esau with his sons and all the ‎kings of Canaan, mourned a great and heavy mourning over him, and after they buried him ‎they still mourned for him through many days. And it was at the death of Isaac that he left all ‎his cattle and all those belonging unto him unto his sons. And Esau said unto Jacob: Behold ‎here is all that our father hath left, and we will divide it into two parts, and I will take my ‎choice. And Jacob said let us do so. And Jacob took all that Isaac had left unto them in the land ‎of Canaan, the cattle and all the other property, and he divided it into two parts in the ‎presence of Esau and his sons, and said unto Esau : Behold all is here before thee, and now ‎select the half thou wishest to take. And Jacob said unto Esau: Listen now at my proposal. The ‎Lord God of heaven and of earth spoke unto our fathers, Abraham and Isaac, saying: Unto thy ‎seed shall I give this land to possess it forever. And now behold here is before thee all the ‎personal property of our father on one side, and the possession of Canaan on the other, and - ‎select whichever thou pleaseth. If thou wishest to have the land then take it for thee and thy ‎sons forever, and I will take all these riches; and if thou wishest these riches, then take them, ‎and I will have this land for me and my sons to possess it forever. And Nebayoth, Ishmael’s ‎son, was there with his sons in the land, and Esau went on that day, and he consulted him, ‎saying: Such and such was Jacob’s proposal unto me, and now give me thy advice, and I will act ‎accordingly. And Nebayoth said unto him: What are those words that Jacob hath spoken unto ‎thee? Behold all the sons of Canaan are dwelling in the land, and Jacob speaketh of possess ing ‎it with his seed forever, and now go thou and take all the riches of thy father, and leave unto ‎thy brother Jacob the land, according to his words. And Esau rose up and returned unto Jacob, ‎and he did according as he was advised by Nebayoth, Ishmael’s son. And Esau took all the ‎wealth that Isaac had left, the slaves and the cattle, and all the other property and of all that ‎great wealth he gave nothing unto Jacob. And Jacob took the entire land of Canaan, from the ‎river of Egypt even unto the Euphrates, as an inheritance forever for himself, and his sons and ‎his seed after him for all time.‎