Job 3:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Cross References

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

Job 3:11

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Job 3:13

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

Isaiah 66:12

For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.