Job 3:12

Modern English Version

Why did her knees receive me? And why her 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 a flowing stream. Then you shall nurse, you shall be carried on her sides, and dandled on her knees.

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Have relations with her so that she may bear a child on my knees, so that I may also have children through her.”

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. Also, the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up on Joseph’s knees.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down and would be at peace; I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,