Genesis 4:12
when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth.”
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In Context
13And Cain says to YHWH, “My punishment is too great than to bear;
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to the man He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eat from the tree concerning which I have charged you, saying, You do not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on your account; in sorrow you eat of it [for] all days of your life,
Leviticus 26:20and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23And your heavens which [are] over your head have been bronze, and the earth which [is] under you iron;
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becomes a barren place, || For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, || Flees to the pit, [and] none takes hold on him [to help].
Hosea 9:17My God rejects them, || Because they have not listened to Him, || And they are wanderers among 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 →