12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?


In Context

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?