Genesis 4:14 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁴ “See, You have driven me from the face of the ground today, and I am hidden from Your face. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me kills me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Now that you’ve driven me away from the fertile land and I am hidden from your presence, I’m about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Behold, you have cast me out this day before the face of the earth, and from your face I will be hidden; and I will be a vagrant and a fugitive on the earth. Therefore, anyone who finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:14 Cross References

Genesis 3:24

and He drove the man out. And He placed keruḇ

Genesis 4:13

And Qayin said to יהוה, “My punishment is too great to bear!

2 Samuel 14:7

“And see, the entire clan has risen up against your female servant and said, ‘Give him who smote his brother, so that we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would extinguish my burning coal that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

Psalm 109:10

And let his children always wander and beg, And seek food out of their ruins.

Psalm 109:12

Let him have no one to extend kindness, Nor any to show favour to his fatherless children.

Psalm 143:7

Hasten, answer me, O יהוה ; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those going down into the pit.

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 28:1

The wrong shall flee though no one pursues, But the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth and see distress and darkness, gloom of hard times, and be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 52:3

For through the displeasure of יהוה  this came to be against Yerushalayim and Yehuḏ

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like a morning cloud, and like dew that goes away early, like chaff blown off from a threshing-floor, and like smoke from a window.

Leviticus 26:17

‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

Leviticus 26:36

‘And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

Numbers 35:19

‘The revenger of blood himself puts the murderer to death. When he meets him, he puts him to death.

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity he smites him with his hand so that he dies, the one who smote him shall certainly be put to death, for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood puts the murderer to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35:27

and the revenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the revenger of blood kills him who killed someone, he is not guilty of blood,

Matthew 25:41

“He shall then also say to those on the left hand, ‘Go away from Me, accursed ones, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers –

Matthew 25:46

“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.”

Deuteronomy 28:64

“And יהוה  shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:65

“And among those nations you are to find no rest, nor have a resting place for the sole of your foot. But there יהוה  shall give you a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and sorrow of being.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Master and from the esteem of His strength,