Genesis 4:12
Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Cain said unto Yahweh—Greater is my punishment than I can bear.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;
Leviticus 26:20And your strength shall be spent in vain,—And your land shall not yield her increase, And the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23And thy heavens which are over thy head shall become bronze,—and the earth which is under thee iron.
Psalms 107:34A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.
Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with a person’s blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
Hosea 9:17My God will reject them, because they hearkened not unto him,—that they may become wanderers throughout 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 →