 Let me say this, there are no illegitimate children in the truest sense of the word, only illegitimate parents. And as a result, he was looked down on by his half-brothers who disowned him. They said, you're not going to share in the inheritance. Actually, he was exiled. He was driven out. And the Bible tells us that he was in a consort of vain fellows. That is, he had a bad environment. He'd known failure and rejection and poverty.