Genesis 4:12
When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat—of that you have eaten, cursed is the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your 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 you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
Proverbs 28:17He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honor to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.
Hosea 9:17God shall reject them, because they have not listened 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 →