Genesis 4:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 4:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Revelation 16:9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelation 16:11
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Revelation 16:21
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-15)

We have here a further account of the proceedings against Cain. I. Here is Cain’s complaint of the sentence passed upon him, as hard and severe. Some make him to speak the language of despair, and read it, My iniquity is greater than that it may be forgiven; and so what he says is a reproach and affront to the mercy of God, which those only shall have the benefit of that hope in it. There is forgi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-14. And Cain said ... My punishment is greater than I can bear--What an overwhelming sense of misery; but no sign of penitence, nor cry for pardon.