Genesis 4:12
when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee — a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Cain saith unto Jehovah, 'Greater is my punishment than to be borne;
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Leviticus 26:20and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:23'And thy heavens which [are] over thy head have been brass, and the earth which [is] under thee iron;
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
Hosea 9:17Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among 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 →