Job 3:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² Why did the knees prevent me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Why did the knees prevent me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Common English Bible

¹² Why did knees receive me and breasts let me nurse?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Job 3:12 Cross References

Genesis 30:3

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

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw E´phra-im's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manas´seh were brought up 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 still 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 Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.