Job 3:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.

Job 3:11

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

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:

Isaiah 66:12

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and ye shall suck thereof; ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.