Genesis 4:12
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.
Genesis 4:12 in other translations
| BSB | When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” |
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| WEB | 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.” |
| ASV | when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. |
| YLT | 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.' |
| DARBY | When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth. |
| BBE | No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. |
| Webster | When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. |
What does Genesis 4:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 4:11-12
11-12. now art thou cursed from the earth--a curse superadded to the general one denounced on the ground for Adam's sin.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 4:8-15
Malice in the heart ends in murder by the hands. Cain slew Abel, his own brother, his own mother's son, whom he ought to have loved; his younger brother, whom he ought to have protected; a good brother, who had never done him any wrong. What fatal effects were these of our first parents' sin, and how must their hearts have been filled with anguish! Observe the pride, unbelief, and impenitence of Cain. He denies the…
Genesis 4:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 4:12
- Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Leviticus 26:20
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
- Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
- Deuteronomy 28:65-66
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
- Jeremiah 20:3-4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor–missabib. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
- Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- Genesis 3:17-18
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
- Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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Context
- Genesis 4:11
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
- Genesis 4:12
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.
- Genesis 4:13
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuando labrares la tierra, no te volverá á dar su fuerza: errante y extranjero serás en la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Quand tu laboureras le sol, il ne te donnera plus sa force; tu seras errant et vagabond sur la terre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn du den Erdboden bebaust, soll er dir hinfort seine Kraft nicht geben; unstet und flüchtig sollst du sein auf der Erde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum operatus fueris eam, non dabit tibi fructus suos: vagus et profugus eris super terram. |