הֵן֩ גֵּרַ֨שְׁתָּ אֹתִ֜י הַיּ֗וֹם מֵעַל֙ פְּנֵ֣י הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה וּמִפָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶסָּתֵ֑ר וְהָיִ֜יתִי נָ֤ע וָנָד֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וְהָיָ֥ה כָל־מֹצְאִ֖י יַֽהַרְגֵֽנִי׃
אָט האָסטו מיך הײַנט פֿאַרטריבן פֿון דעם געזיכט פֿון לאַנד, און פֿון דײַן פּנים װעל איך זײַן פֿאַרבאָרגן, און איך װעל זײַן נעַ-ונַד אױף דער ערד; װעט זײַן, װער-נאָר עס טרעפֿט מיך װעט מיך דערהרגען.
The Midrash of Philo
What is the meaning of Cain, when he says, "Everyone who shall find me will kill me:" when there was scarcely another human being in the world except his parents? (Genesis 4:14).
That the Worse is wont to Attack the Better
[150] What has been said about the words, “The charge to which abandonment exposes me is too great,” must suffice, and we must consider the words that follow. “If” he says “Thou castest me out to-day from the face of the earth, from Thy face also shall I be hidden” (Gen. 4:14). What are you saying, good sir? If you shall have been cast out of all the earth, will you still hide yourself? How?
That the Worse is wont to Attack the Better
[163] Why then do you talk idly saying, “If Thou art casting me out of the earth, Thee also shall I hide from myself” (Gen. 4:14)? For, on the contrary, were He to expel you from the earthly sphere, He will show you His own image clearly manifested. This can be proved. You are going to remove out of the presence of God, and having so removed you will none the less inhabit your earthly body; for he says afterwards, “and Cain went out from the presence of God and dwelt in the earth” (Gen. 4:16); so that, instead of having been cast out of the earth and having hidden from yourself Him that IS, you have turned away from Him and have taken refuge in earth, i.e. the mortal region.