Verse 14
14. Thou hast driven Cain seems to charge all his curse on God, as if ignoring that he himself was the guilty cause .
From the face of the earth Special reference to the district of Eden. Compare Genesis 4:16. His sentence to be a vagabond and a fugitive involved this separation from Eden.
From thy face From that hallowed spot on the east of the garden of Eden where the symbols of the divine Presence were set, (Genesis 3:24,) and where, probably, all sacrifices to Jehovah had hitherto been offered. Comp. Genesis 4:16.
Every one… shall slay me Thus in that first age we note how the guilty conscience fears the avenger of blood. It has been plausibly supposed that the murder of Abel occurred not long before the birth of Seth, (see Genesis 4:25,) when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old, (Genesis 5:3;) at which time there was probably a considerable population in man’s primeval seat . “By every one we are not to understand every creature, as though Cain had excited the hostility of all creatures, but every man . Cain is evidently afraid of revenge on the part of relatives of the slain, who were either already in existence or yet to be born . ” Keil .
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