Job
King James Version (KJV)
Job 3:12
“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?”
King James Version (KJV)
Job 3:12 Context
9Let 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: 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Other Translations
Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
- American Standard Version (1901)
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
- Basic English Bible
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- Darby Bible
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
- Webster's Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
- World English Bible
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
- American Standard Version (1901)
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
- Basic English Bible
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- Darby Bible
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
- Webster's Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
- World English Bible
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Job 3:12
3:12 The knees - Why did the midwife or nurse receive and lay me upon her knees, and not suffer me to fall upon the bare ground, 'till death had taken me out of this miserable world, into which their cruel kindness hath betrayed me? Why did the breasts prevent me from perishing through hunger, or supply me that should have what to suck? Thus Job unthankfully despises these wonderful mercies of God towards poor helpless infants.