Genesis 4:12

When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.

13And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Leviticus 26:20And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:23And thou shalt have over thy head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.

Proverbs 28:17a Chasten thy son, and he shall love thee, 1 And give honor to thy soul: 1 He shall not obey a sinful nation. 1

Hosea 9:17God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened 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 →

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