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NASB | Genesis 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 4:13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. |
Bible Question:
In Genesis 4:13-15, Cain is speaking with God about his punishment for killing his brother Abel. He say's that his punishment is to great for him to bear and so forth. Cain's concern becomes what will happen to him if God banishes him. He goes on to express concern about becoming a vagabond on the earth. He worries about his demise if someone else finds him and wants to slay him. He is one of the sons of Adam and Eve, the first two breathed into and or created of God and placed in the Garden of Eden. Who was Cain afraid of being killed by? Was he not one of the sons born of Adam and Eve, the first humans God created? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Jem... Welcome to the forum! Of whom was Cain afraid? God Himself. No doubt the warning before Cain's sin must have been a difficult thing to hear (Genesis 4:6-7). Compound that with the sin now on Cain's conscience. Furthermore, God had cursed Cain (vv11-12). With all of that, can we not well imagine that he was frightened (though evidently unrepentant)? Certainly someone who committed so horrid a sin as fratricide would expect to be despised in the growing community of men. Nonetheless, notice that Cain does not cry out for pardon. Notice that there is no sign of repentance in his words (vv13-14). Nor is there any evidence of a penitent in his subsequent behavior (vv16-17). Instead, Cain exhibits what Paul later calls a "sorrow of the world [which] produces death (2 Corinthians 7:10). In Him, Doc |
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