Genesis 4:7
Is there not, if you do well, acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin [[ or a sin-offering]] is lying at the opening, and its [[ or His]] desire [is] for you, and you rule over it [[ or by Him]].”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
6And YHWH says to Cain, “Why do you have displeasure? And why has your countenance fallen?
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman He said, “Multiplying I multiply your sorrow and your conception; you will bear children in sorrow, and your desire [is] toward your Man [[ or husband]], and He [[ or he]] will rule over you.”
Genesis 19:21And he says to him, “Behold, I have also accepted your face for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which you have spoken;
2 Samuel 24:23Araunah has given the whole [as] a king to a king; and Araunah says to the king, “Your God YHWH accepts you.”
Job 29:4As I have been in days of my maturity, || And the counsel of God on my tent.
Proverbs 18:5Favoring of the face of the wicked [is] not good, || To turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner is doing evil one hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:7-8
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. God is here reasoning with Cain, to convince him of the sin and folly of his anger and discontent, and to bring him into a good temper again, that further mischief might be prevented. It is an instance of God's patience and condescending goodness that he would deal… Read the whole commentary →