Job 3:12

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Isaiah 66:12

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

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that 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 counted as Joseph’s own.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

Job 3:13

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