Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed 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 →