Genesis 4:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.

Cross References

Genesis 4:13

“This punishment is too hard!” Cain said.

Genesis 4:14

“You're making me leave my home and live far from you. I will have to wander about without a home, and anyone could kill me.”

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Psalm 109:10

make his children beg for food and live in the slums.

Proverbs 28:17

Don't give help to murderers! Make them stay on the run for as long as they live.

Hosea 9:17

Israel, you disobeyed my God. Now he will force you to roam from nation to nation.

Joel 1:10

Barren fields mourn; grain, grapes, and olives are scorched and shrivelled.

Leviticus 26:17

and I will turn from you and let you be destroyed by your attackers. You will even run at the very rumour of attack.

Leviticus 26:20

All your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

Leviticus 26:36

In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.

Romans 8:20

Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope

Deuteronomy 28:15

Israel, today I am giving you the laws and teachings of the LORD your God. And if you don't obey them all, he will put many curses on you.