Job 3:12
King James Version (KJV)
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In context
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3:12 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- WEB World English Bible
- Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
- DBY Darby Translation
- Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?