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


In Context

9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

11 |Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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

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

14 with kings and counselors 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 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 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?