Gen 4:12-14, 2Sa 3:29, 2Ki 5:27, Job 24:8-12, 30:3-9, Psa 37:25 | ESV | STEP | When you work the ground , it shall no longer yield to you its strength . You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth .

Genesis 4:12-14

12 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” 13 Cain said to the Lord, “My ^apunishment is greater than I can bear. ^{▼▼Or My guilt is too great to bear} 14 Behold, ^cyou have driven me today away from the ground, and ^dfrom your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, ^eand whoever finds me will kill me.”

2 Samuel 3:29

29 ^fMay it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without ^gone who has a discharge or who is ^hleprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”

2 Kings 5:27

27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence ⁱa leper, like snow.

Job 24:8-12

8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and ^jcling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they ^kcarry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wicked ^{▼▼Hebrew their olive rows} they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of ^mthe wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with ⁿwrong.

Job 30:3-9

3 Through want and hard hunger
they ^ognaw ^pthe dry ground by night in ^qwaste and desolation;
4 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food. ^{▼▼Or warmth}
5 ^sThey are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of ^tthe rocks.
7 Among the bushes they ^ubray;
under ^vthe nettles they huddle together.
8 A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.
9 “And now I have become their ^wsong;
I am ^xa byword to them.

Psalms 37:25

25 I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or his children ^ybegging for bread.