Job 3:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:3

She said, *Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.*

Genesis 50:23

Yosef saw Efrayim's children to the third generation. The children also of Makhir, the son of Menasheh, were born on Yosef's knees.

Job 3:11

*Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend shalom to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.