Genesis 3:17
Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And so the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and beautiful to the eyes, and delightful to consider. And she took from its fruit, and she ate. And she gave to her husband, who ate.
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will console us from the works and hardships of our hands, in the land that the Lord has cursed.”
Job 5:6Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.
Job 14:1Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Psalms 90:7A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.
Ecclesiastes 1:2Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!
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 →