Job 3:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² Why did the knees welcome me, and breasts that I might nurse?

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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?

Job 3:12 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:3

So she said, “Here’s my maid-servant Bilhah. Go to her and let her give birth on my knees, so that from her I may also build a family.”

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s sons. Also the sons of Machir, Manasseh’s son, were born upon Joseph’s knees.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die at birth and expire as I exited the womb?

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep and at rest

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says Adonai: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. You will be nursed, carried on the hip, and bounced on her knees.