Genesis 4:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² “If you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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.

Common English Bible

¹² When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Genesis 4:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:13

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

Genesis 4:14

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.

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 109:10

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

Proverbs 28:17

A man oppressed by blood-guilt flees into a pit; Let no one help him.

Hosea 9:17

My Elohim rejects them, because they have not obeyed Him, so that they become wanderers among the nations!

Joel 1:10

The field is ravaged, the ground has mourned, for the grain is ruined, the new wine has dried up, the oil fails.

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 26:20

‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,

Deuteronomy 28:15

And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.”