Jacob wasn't so bad

[Servant's <3]

So, lemme get this straight if a person is fully complicit in a scandal and knowingly does things in a deceitful manner but isn't the "mastermind" said person isn't deceitful? No, I have to disagree with that, entirely.

Jacob was manipulative and deceitful. Esau was foolish in selling his birthright, but it definitely was not a transaction on the up and up so to speak.

Jacob later turned from his deceitful ways and sought God but he was definitely a deceiver. He deceived his brother, father, and Laban. (Yes, Laban deceived him as well but we aren't talking about Laban.)

Trouble seemed to find Jacob regularly... Between his wives, his sons, his brother. Later having to bow down before another of his sons. The long time of grief he felt when he thought his favorite son was dead. No Jacob's life was by no means wonderful even after his deceptions. I mean I won't even go into the fact that a father shouldn't play favorites.