Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
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13And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And 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.
Leviticus 26:20And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
Psalms 107:34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
Proverbs 28:17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
Hosea 9:17My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:10-13
Cain's Punishment. ( b. c. 3875.) 9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. We have here a… Read the whole commentary →