Genesis 4:13-14 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.… There is a great change since he spoke last, but not for the better. All the difference is, instead of his high tone of insolence, we perceive him sinking into the last stage of depravity, sullen desperation. Behold here a finished picture of impenitent misery. What a contrast to the fifty-first Psalm! There the evil dwelt upon and pathetically lamented is sin; but here is only punishment. See how he expatiates upon it...Driven from the face of the earth...deprived of God's favour and blessing, and, in a sort, of the means of hope...a wanderer and an outcast from men...to all which his fears add, "Wherever I am by night or by day, my life will be in perpetual danger!" Truly it was a terrible doom, a kind of hell upon earth. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!" (A. Fuller.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.WEB: Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. |
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