Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
- BSB “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
- NKJV So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
- NASB Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why is your face gloomy?
- NLT “Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected?
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- Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
- Luke 15:31–32“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
- Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
- Mic 6:3–5My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
- Matt 20:15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
- John 4:8–11For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
- Jer 2:5Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
- John 4:1–4Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- 1 Chr 13:11–13David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
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