Job 3:12

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Cross References

Genesis 30:3

And she said, Behold my servant Bilhah! Go in to her and let her bear on my knees; yea, let me be built up from her, me also.

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw the sons of Ephraim to the third generation. Also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph’s knees. And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God visiting will visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?

Job 3:13

For now I would have lain down and have been quiet; I would have slept. Then I would have been at rest,

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says Jehovah: Behold, I stretch out peace to her like a river, and like an overflowing torrent, the glory of the nations. And you shall nurse; you shall be lifted on the side, and you shall be dandled on the knees.