Genesis 4:12
From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
World English Bible
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In Context
13Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Leviticus 26:20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Proverbs 28:17A man who is tormented by blood guilt will be a fugitive until death. No one will support him.
Hosea 9:17My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will 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 →