וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתָ ק֚וֹל דְּמֵ֣י אָחִ֔יךָ צֹעֲקִ֥ים אֵלַ֖י מִן־הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃
האָט ער געזאָגט: װאָס האָסטו געטאָן? דער קָול פֿון דײַן ברודערס בלוט שרײַט צו מיר פֿון דער ערד.
The Midrash of Philo
Why he who knows all things asks the fratricide: "Where is thy brother Abel?" (Genesis 4:10).
The Midrash of Philo
What is the meaning of the expression, "The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the earth?" (Genesis 4:10).
That the Worse is wont to Attack the Better
[48] And this is just what we should expect to befall him. For the soul that has extirpated from itself the principle of the love of virtue and the love of God, has died to the life of virtue. Abel, therefore, strange as it seems, has both been put to death and lives: he is destroyed or abolished out of the mind of the fool, but he is alive with the happy life in God. To this the declaration of Scripture shall be our witness, where Abel is found quite manifestly using his “voice” and “crying out” (Gen. 4:10) the wrongs which he has suffered at the hands of a wicked brother. For how could one no longer living speak?