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


In Context

9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

11 "Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

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

13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,

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 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?