Genesis 4:13

My punishment is greater than. can bear.

The meaning is plain if this is. correct translation. Many have held that the word translated punishment should be rendered "iniquity," as in the margin of the common version. If so it would seem to indicate. deep remorse, not penitence perhaps, but. kind of despair like that of Judas.. little while before he had refused to offer. bloody sacrifice as one too righteous to need it; now he feels that he is so dark. sinner that no sacrifice can take his sin away. The 14th verse, however, rather harmonizes with the common translation.