Genesis 4:12
When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land.”
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13And Cain said to the Lord: “My iniquity is too great to deserve kindness.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Yet 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.
Leviticus 26:20Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23May the heavens which are above you be of brass, and may the ground upon which you tread be of iron.
Proverbs 28:17A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.
Hosea 9:17My God will cast them aside because they have not listened to him; and they will be wanderers 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 →