Job 3:12

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:3

So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.”

Genesis 50:23

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

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?

Job 3:13

For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then you shall feed; On her sides shall you be carried, And be dandled on her knees.