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


In Context

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?

12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, 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 build desolate 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, 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?