Job 3:12

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Cross References

Genesis 30:3

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by 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 died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:

Isaiah 66:12

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and ye shall suck thereof; ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.