Genesis 4:13
Good News Translation
And Cain said to the LORD, "This punishment is too hard for me to bear.

New Revised Standard Version
Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!

Contemporary English Version
"This punishment is too hard!" Cain said.

New American Bible
Cain said to the LORD: “My punishment is too great to bear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.

Job 15:22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

Revelation 16:9,11,21 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they penance to give him glory. . . .

Context
Cain Murders Abel
12When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth. 13And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.14Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.…
Cross References
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Genesis 4:14
Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me, shall kill me.

Genesis 4:12
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