Job 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version

¹² Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Why did the knees prevent me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Common English Bible

¹² Why did knees receive me and breasts let me nurse?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Why received upon the knees? Why suckled at the breasts?

Job 3:12 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her.”

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph's knees.

Job 3:11

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

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm, and dandled on her knees.