Genesis 4-6

Wroth and fallen countenance. 4:5 no correction seems pleasant for the moment.

4:24 going beyond God's prescribed punishment?

---------Discovery time....

Gen 4:5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Wroth - H2734 - A primitive root (compare H2787); to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy.

Fallen countenance - heh, his countenance fell.

Countenance - H6440 - Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פּנה pâneh, paw-neh'; from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.).

Fell - H5307 - A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitively or causatively, literally or figuratively).

Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Correction, rebuke, chastisement - ouch. Oh...these would be wonderful word studies.

Deu 8:5  Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 

Psa 94:12  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 

Pro 19:18  Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Pro 29:17  Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. 

Going beyond what God had doled out to Cain?

Gen 4:24  If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

So is he boasting?  Or trying to out do God?  How often do we go beyond what God has stated/prescribed?

How often do we make the Word of God of no effect?