Genesis 4:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

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  • Lev 26:36 : 36 `And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 `And thy heavens which `are' over thy head have been brass, and the earth which `is' under thee iron; 24 Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.
  • Deut 28:65-66 : 65 `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul; 66 and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
  • Jer 20:3-4 : 3 and it cometh to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur bringeth out Jeremiah from the stocks, and Jeremiah saith unto him, `Not Pashhur hath Jehovah called thy name, but -- Magor-Missabib. 4 For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword.
  • Hos 9:17 : 17 Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject `it' -- in hope,
  • Gen 3:17-18 : 17 And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, 18 and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'
  • Lev 26:20 : 20 and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 4:5-11
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    84%

    5and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

    6And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

    7Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

    8And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, ``Let us go into the field;'' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

    9And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where `is' Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'

    10And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

    11and now, cursed `art' thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

  • Gen 4:13-16
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    13And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

    14lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'

    15And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore -- of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

    16And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

  • Gen 3:16-19
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    76%

    16Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband `is' thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

    17And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed `is' the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

    18and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

    19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

  • Gen 4:2-3
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    2and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.

    3And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah;

  • Gen 3:23
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    23Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

  • Deut 28:16-20
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    72%

    16`Cursed `art' thou in the city, and cursed `art' thou in the field.

    17`Cursed `is' thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

    18`Cursed `is' the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

    19`Cursed `art' thou in thy coming in, and cursed `art' thou in thy going out.

    20`Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings `by' which thou hast forsaken Me.

  • Gen 3:14
    71%

    14And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed `art' thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;

  • Lev 26:20
    70%

    20and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

  • Gen 9:25
    69%

    25and saith: `Cursed `is' Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30`A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

  • Job 18:4
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    4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

  • Deut 28:25
    68%

    25`Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;

  • Gen 27:40
    67%

    40and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

  • Deut 28:33
    67%

    33The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;

  • Mic 6:15
    67%

    15Thou -- thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou -- thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine -- and thou drinkest not wine.

  • Gen 9:6
    67%

    6whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.