“Cain said to the Lord: “Is my iniquity too great to bear?” (Genesis 4:13). “Cain said to the Lord: “Is my iniquity too great to bear?” (Genesis 4:13). You bear the upper worlds and the lower worlds, but You are unable to bear my transgression? Another matter, My iniquity is greater than Father’s.
Father violated a lesser commandment and was expelled from the Garden of Eden. This [what I have done] is the severe transgression of bloodshed, all the more so that my iniquity is great.48Cain was not questioning the punishment. Rather, he was confessing his sin. “Behold, You have banished me today from the face of the land and from Your face shall I be hidden, and I will be restless and itinerant on the earth and anyone who finds me will kill me” (Genesis 4:14).
“Behold, You have banished” – yesterday You banished Father,49Hence “have banished,” in the past tense. and today you are banishing me; “Behold, You have banished me today.” Can I possibly be hidden from Your face, being restless and itinerant on the earth…?