12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts 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 see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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

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

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Job 3:12 in Other Translations

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 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?