Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
Leviticus 26:20Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Proverbs 28:17A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
Hosea 9:17My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to 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 →