Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
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18Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
Genesis 5:29And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.
Job 5:6For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Job 14:1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Ecclesiastes 1:2All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:17
Sentence Passed on Eve. ( b. c. 4004.) 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. We have here the sentence passed upon the woman for her sin. Two things she is condemned to: a state of sorrow, and a state of subjection, proper punishments of a sin in which she had gratified her pleasure and her pride. I. She is here put into a state of sorrow, one particular of… Read the whole commentary →