Devine Scripture

Job 3:12

Job chapter 3 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

v.12This passage

v.13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 16:4

    And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 66:12

    For thus saith Jehovah, 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.

  • 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.