There is no answer. Its urge is toward you, but you can rule over it. But here there are no words, there is no quotation.
Some contemporary translations leave an empty space, three dots, a silence.
Again with our own children vividly before our eyes, we could see the story in a new way. Surely we can share Cain's initial anger at his Parent s favoritism. Perhaps by this point in the story, God the Parent Reality Itself looked grim and awesome. God had told Eve and Adam to choose a life of unknowing blissful childhood, and they had refused. Their choice of independence hurtles them into a world of scarcity, where food comes hard, through sweaty toil.