Genesis 4:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 4:12 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
- Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
- Jeremiah 20:3The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
- Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
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