Genesis 4:12
When you cultivate the ground, from now on it will not yield to you its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer you will be in the earth.”
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13Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, 1 “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, 1 and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you, 1 saying, 'You may not eat from it,' 1 cursed is the ground because of you; 1 through painful work you will eat from it all the days of your life. 1
Leviticus 26:20Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23Your skies that are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a barren place 1 because of the wickedness of its people. 1
Proverbs 28:17If a man is guilty because he has shed someone's blood, 1 he will be a fugitive until death 1 and no one will help him. 1
Hosea 9:17My God will reject them 1 because they have not obeyed him. 1 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 →