Job 3:12
World English Bible (WEB)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
In context
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
Job 3:12 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
- KJV King James Version
- Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- 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?