Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Leviticus 26:20and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Proverbs 28:17A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
Hosea 9:17My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall 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 →