Job 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why were there knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

American Standard Version (1901)

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Common English Bible

Why did knees receive me and breasts let me nurse?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Why received upon the knees? Why suckled at the breasts?

Job 3:12 Cross References

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her.”

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm and bounced on her knees.