Job 3:12

American Standard Version 2015

Why did the knees receive me?\par\tab Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Cross References

Isaiah 66:12

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

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?\par\tab Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet;\par\tab I should have slept; then had I been at rest,