Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- BSB But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- NKJV And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!
- NASB Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure!
- NLT Cain replied to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear!
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Cross-references · 4
- Job 15:22He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
- Rev 16:9People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
- Rev 16:21Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
- Rev 16:11and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.
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