Genesis 4:12
From now on when you till the ground, it will no longer yield its best to you. You will be a vagabond and a wandering refugee upon the earth.’
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In Context
13Then Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is too much for me to bear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and ate from the tree about which I ordered you: “You must never eat from it” the ground will be cursed because of you; as long as you live, you will earn a living only by anguished toil.
Psalms 107:34fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the sin of the people.
Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him, and they will become 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 →