Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
13. My punishment is greater , etc . Nearly all commentators agree that this is the language of desperation; because Cain, confounded by the judgment of God, had no remaining hope of pardon. And this, indeed, is true, that the reprobate are never conscious of their evils, till a ruin, from which they cannot escape, overtakes them; yea, truly, when the sinner, obstinate to the...
Satan drives his servants from presumption straight to despair. Cain complains not of his sin but of his punishment, as though God were unjust. He quarrels with the sentence instead of accepting it; his hardness lies in caring more for his sufferings than his sins. He cries out wronged when he should marvel he is not in hell.
AI summary
Commenting on Genesis 4:13-15
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth,.... Not from being upon the earth, or had chased him out of the world as a wicked man is at death, but from a quiet settlement in it, and from society and converse with the inhabitants of it; and especially he was driven from that part of it, where he was...