Job 3:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² Why did the knees receive 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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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 even I may have children through 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 did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Job 3:13

For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall suck, you shall be carried upon her hip, and dandled upon her knees.