Cain said to the Lord: “My punishment is too great to bear.
If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth.
Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”
He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever for the sword;
The penalty of your depravity and your abominations—you must bear it all—oracle of the Lord.
and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores. But they did not repent of their works.
Large hailstones like huge weights came down from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because this plague was so severe.
People were burned by the scorching heat and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent or give him glory.