Genesis 4:12 - English Standard Version 2016 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth. |
Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
“But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.