Job 3:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Isaiah 66:12

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

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and 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 born upon Joseph's knees.

Job 3:11

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

Job 3:13

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